The New Hypnotherapy Handbook: Hypnosis and Mind/Body Healing by Kevin Hogan
This book is an authoritative resource for the hypnotherapist. Kevin Hogan brings theory into practice with remarkable success. Every intervention and skill is explained in the same tone that he has become well known for in the Journal of Hypnotism. This book is respectful of the client, of the medical community and hypnotherapy. I recommend it and know that it will soon become a classic standard text for serious students and professional hypnotherapists.
- Dwight Damon, D.C., President –National Guild of Hypnotists
The New Hypnotherapy Handbook is a commonly used textbook for Kevin Hogan’s hypnosis certification program. I especially enjoyed this book because it shows a model of hypnotherapy, several useful scripts, and solutions to confronting difficult problems in hypnosis.
First, the basic format. CARPETS is Hogan’s acronym for Case Analysis, Regression, Parts/Ego State, Time Track Therapy and Suggestive Therapeutics. The apex of the model is the Time Track Component. I have never seen such an amazing piece of work in the field of hypnotherapy. What you learn is how to weave a clients past and future positive resources into their current state of mind. This modality by itself is worth the cost of the book.
The discussion of ethical issues, case analysis and legal issues is top quality. The details of regression are sketchy at first but made clear later in the book when his co-authors give word-for-word transcripts of their session work. The ego state therapy is more accurately described in Ego States by Watkins, but the treatment is satisfactory. The specialty chapters on Emergency Hypnosis, Past Life Regression and even UFO abductions are interesting and always prefaced with cautions of ethical use and careful handling of the client.
This book started off a bit clumsily and then by Chapter Two it was clear it was one of the finest books on hypnosis I have read. Anyone interested in either receiving or performing hypnosis therapy NEEDS this book!
Introducing NLP: Psychological Skills for Understanding and Influencing People (Neuro-Linguistic Programming)
The book is the most compete NLP book on one single binding. It is very well organized and very structured – definitely the most definitive basic NLP book in the market.
Perhaps that’s why this book is one of the recommended introductory text in many NLP Practitioner courses, and it is still in printing after so many years and so many printings.
The NLP theories presented here start from the basic and slowly progress to in-depth. It does not have excessive NLP jargon, and yet not too simple. Where jargon is used, you can check the glossaries where each NLP term is explained in plain English.
Each chapter is full of well-connected groups of NLP tools and concepts, seamlessly linked to the following chapters, and normally ends with some NLP exercises which you can immediately use to change your life for the better.
Unlike other self-help books where the so-called expert fills you up with their motivational ideas, normally all flash and no substance, the NLP ideas presented here are without all the fluff and “how poor turned heroes” stories. In this book, O’Connor just gives you pure power-packed NLP ideas that you can try on yourself and others for immediate results.
This is definitely the quintessential NLP book. If you’re looking for only one good basic NLP book to change your life, look no further.
Instant Self-Hypnosis: How to Hypnotize Yourself with Your Eyes Open
Hypnosis is a proven technique that allows people to reprogram their subconscious to change unwanted behaviors. Most books on self-hypnosis require the reader to memorize or record scripts, then put the book aside while they do their hypnosis work. But Instant Self-Hypnosis is the only self-hypnosis book that allows you to hypnotize yourself as you read, with your eyes wide open, without putting down the book.
The author’s fail-proof method allows you to put yourself into a hypnotic state and then use that state to improve your life in myriad ways. And because the hypnotic state is induced while you read, you remain aware of your surroundings and can bring yourself back to normal consciousness slowly and gently, using the instructions provided.
This book is written by Forbes Robbins Blair, a professional hypnotherapist with a certification in clinical hypnotherapy from the American Institute of Hypnotherapy. He is also a dream consultant and organizes dream groups and teaches classes on analysing dreams and achieving astral travel. He has made many appearances on radio and TV programs for his expertise on hypnosis and dream analysis.
This book could be of great benefit to anyone who has ever wanted to practice self-hypnosis. The author lays out the process in a very simple way that anyone can understand and implement with ease. It features 35 different “sessions” to help with things such as stress, procrastination, quitting smoking, improving sex life, and many more. There is even a “suggestion template” section, which guides you through a process which will help you to create successful suggestions that will be customized to your personality, preferences and your specific outcome. The writing style is very relaxed and intimate, as if the author is a close friend guiding you through the process of self-hypnosis. Highly recommended for any reader who would like to improve their life in any way through the power of hypnosis!
