Stuttering & Anxiety Self-Cures · What 100+ Pws Taught Me by LOVETT, LEE G. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Table of Contents Author’s Confession Why This 2nd Edition Dedication “Silent Words” (poem) Defining Self-Cure What PWS Wrote About Lee Foreword: Lessons from Stutterers Introduction: Stuttering as a Blessing Part I Understanding the Problem

1.0 When Stuttering Became My Life-Crisis 2.0 Identifying the Cause of Stuttering 3.0 The Role of Mind-Control

Part II The Six Step SELF-Cure

Overview of the Self-Cure 4.0 Step One: Discuss the Problem

4.1 Preview of Six Steps 4.2 Need to Discuss the Problem 4.3 Stuttering Severity Chart 4.4 Planning Your Discussions 4.5 Don’t Avoid Speaking – BUT 4.6 Read This Book Aloud – NOW

5.0 Step Two: My Speech “Crutches” What Is a Crutch & Why Use One?

5.0 Summary of Crutches 5.1 Skipping First Letters/Syllables 5.2 Use a Synonym 5.3 Skip the Word Entirely 5.4 Inserting Alternate Thoughts 5.5 Using Pauses 5.6 Voice Modulation; Be Expressive 5.7 The “Magic” Instant Cure 5.8 Change the Thought 5.9 Tell a Story 5.10 Talk Slower (limited elongation) 5.11 Talk Faster 5.12 Talk Less 5.13 Post Script: Keep It Light 5.14 Conclusion as to Crutches

6.0 Step Three: The Vocabulary-Asset

6.1 Words and Causes of Stuttering 6.2 How to Enhance Your Vocabulary 6.3 Some Word Books 6.4 Memorizing Words 6.5 Implementing Step Three

7.0 Step Four: Get Lost in Your Message;

7.1 The Power of the Message to Cure 7.2 Seven Ways to Max the Message 7.3 Using the Message to Cure 7.4 Daily Practice: Start Now

8.0 Step Five: Auto Suggestion

8.1 Treating Yourself 8.2 Becoming the Boss of Your Mind 8.3 How Auto Suggestion Works 8.4 The Placebo Effect 8.5 Affirmative Findings re AS 8.6 Your Auto Suggestion Treatments 8.7 Daily Treatments in General 8.8 Your Daily AST’s 8.9 Examples of Auto Suggestions 8.10 How Much Time for Daily AST’s 8.11 Idle Time or Bonus Treatments 8.12 Automatic Response Treatments 8.13 Summary of Treatments 8.14 Why Auto Suggestion Will Work 8.15 Rejecting Negatives 8.16 The Think-Visualize-Verbalize-Do 8.17 Conscious v. Subconscious Mind

9.0 Step Six: Mental Imagery and Auto Conditioning/Self Hypnosis

9.1 AS v. Self-Hypnosis (SH) 9.2 Lessons from a Psychiatrist 9.3 Self-Hypnosis and You 9.4 Learning to Hypnotize Yourself 9.5 Self-Hypnosis (Subconscious) v. Auto Suggestion (Conscious) 9.6 Graduation: Public Speaking

Part III What 100+ PWS Taught Me

10. “Speech Is a River” 11. What 100+ PWS Taught Me

11.1 Who Are My PWS-Mates? 11.2 The Main Thing PWS Taught Me 11.3 How PWS Differ 11.4 PWS Self-Curing 11.5 Stuttering Variables 11.6 Stutter Free Zones 11.7 Saying Cursed Names 11.8 What Helps Most 11.9 PWS Chasing Rainbows 11.10 Why Reading Aloud Works 11.11 AS-SH, The Greatest Aids of All 11.12 Crutches Prevent Word-Planning

12. Jump Starting Your Self-Cure

12.1 Speak Where You Are Fluent 12.2 Read Aloud 12.3 Reduce Pressured-Speaking 12.4 Be as Expressive as Possible 12.5 Problems with First Words 12.6 Simulate Pressured Conversations 12.7 Drills to Stimulate Spontaneity 12.8 Perfection, Not the Goal 12.9 Preventing Relapses

13. The Seven Cardinal Sins of PWS

13.1 Never Say, “I’m sorry.” 13.2 Don’t Repeat Stuttered Words 13.3 Don’t Try to Hold the Floor 13.4 Don’t Announce Your Stuttering 13.5 Don’t Create More SMs Than FMs 13.6 Never Publicly Wrestle a Block 13.7 Never Refuse a Cure

14. Mild Speech Anxiety 15. Healing the Whole Person

15.1 More Than Speech Needs Help 15.2 A Psychiatrist’s Encouraging Words 15.3 The “Normality” of Mental Malaise 15.4 Acceptance v. Self-Curing 15.5 Mind Training, a Way of Life 15.6 Leaving Our Minds to Chance 15.7 Taking Responsibility 15.8 Life Is What We Make It 15.9 Life Is Perception 15.10 Life Is a Game 15.11 A Healing Book

16. Final Thoughts

16.1 Charting Your Course 16.2 Recommending Therapy 16.3 Communicating with Author

17. “Speech Anxiety Anonymous”

Part IV Other Books and Resources

Comments on Other Helpful Books Bibliography and Resources About the Author