Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide
by Tad James Crown House Publishing- Pub Date:
- 03/2000
- ISBN:
- 9781899836451
- Format:
- Hbk 240 pages
- Price:
- AU$49.95 NZ$56.52
Product Status: In Stock Now
Research shows that many people react differently to different types of hypnotic induction - yet many hypnotherapists are confined to using only one technique. This practical book makes three radically different types of hypnosis easy to use in daily hypnotic work, exploring the methods of Milton H. Erickson, George Estabrooks and David Elman, presenting them in such a way as to allow a clear and accessible understanding. A resource for all students, trainers and therapists, it includes a range of powerful scripts for improved hypnotic work.
“This is the sort of book that makes a reviewer`s job worth doing. It is a gem. Well-written, well-paced and packed with information. [It] is a book that everyone with an interest in hypnosis will want to own.”
Andrew Bradbury, author of Successful Presentation Skills and Develop Your NLP Skills
“An excellent introductory text for students beginning to study the art and science of hypnosis. For those already knowledgeable about hypnosis, there are many nuances that will enable you to increase the elegance of your work.”
David Shephard BSc, Master Trainer of NLP, The Performance Partnership Ltd, London
“This is the sort of book that makes a reviewer`s job worth doing. It is a gem. Well-written, well-paced and packed with information. [It] is a book that everyone with an interest in hypnosis will want to own.”
Andrew Bradbury, author of Successful Presentation Skills and Develop Your NLP Skills
“An excellent introductory text for students beginning to study the art and science of hypnosis. For those already knowledgeable about hypnosis, there are many nuances that will enable you to increase the elegance of your work.”
David Shephard BSc, Master Trainer of NLP, The Performance Partnership Ltd, London
“This is the sort of book that makes a reviewer`s job worth doing. It is a gem. Well-written, well-paced and packed with information. [It] is a book that everyone with an interest in hypnosis will want to own.”
Andrew Bradbury, author of Successful Presentation Skills and Develop Your NLP Skills
“An excellent introductory text for students beginning to study the art and science of hypnosis. For those already knowledgeable about hypnosis, there are many nuances that will enable you to increase the elegance of your work.”
David Shephard BSc, Master Trainer of NLP, The Performance Partnership Ltd, London
Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide by Tad James has become a modern classic and the bedrock of initiation into the profession today for many clinical hypnotherapists and NLP practitioners. Tad James views the trance phenomenon as the optimal means of plummeting the depths of the client’s intangible unconscious mind in order to promote subliminal learning and to activate the mind-body healing connection.
Tad James primarily examines the work of Milton Erickson and offers the reader an insight into functional working practices as well as allaying many ludicrous misconceptions about hypnotic phenomenon. The author subscribes to Erickson’s permissive hypnotic patterns of indirection suggestion and his paradigm of client-preparation, trance induction and utilisation in order to effect therapeutic change. Hypnosis sets out clearly and concisely the technicalities of the Milton Model of Hypnotic Language Patterns, with its key components of ambiguity and utilisation, as the most effective means of gaining rapport and permitting effective communication with the client’s unconscious mind. The NLP Meta Model, with its concepts of distortion, generalisation and deletion, is also evaluated as the solution to identifying the client’s presenting symptoms and unravelling the information gained from his personal history. In Tad James’ tribute to the master, the hypnotic metaphor is, most importantly, portrayed elegantly as if it came directly from Erickson’s lips.
The reader of Hypnosis will be guided through the process of understanding trance phenomenon, suggestibility testing, trance-levels and ideomotor questioning as well as an interactive method of hypnotherapy which contains inbuilt client-questioning. This book is admirably packed to gunnels with case-study examples and how-to-do-it guides which can either be followed to the letter or be used as a means of allowing the practitioner’s creativity to blossom.
From the work of George Estabrooks, Tad James culls the principles of progressive test-oriented inductions, deepening techniques and post-hypnotic suggestion together with the notion of bypassing the client’s conscious critical factor as expounded by Dave Elman. To the work of these pioneers, Tad James then contributes his own special ingredient from his extensive experience of NLP and Timeline Therapy practice. I am personally heartened that Tad James does not hesitate to warn NLP practitioners and clinical hypnotherapists of the limitations and contra-indications of using purely cognitive-behavioural hypnotic techniques for the client with a life-threatening illness or suffering from deep-seated traumatic distress. - Jacquelyne Morison, Course Director of Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training
Andrew Bradbury, author of Successful Presentation Skills and Develop Your NLP Skills
“An excellent introductory text for students beginning to study the art and science of hypnosis. For those already knowledgeable about hypnosis, there are many nuances that will enable you to increase the elegance of your work.”
David Shephard BSc, Master Trainer of NLP, The Performance Partnership Ltd, London
Hypnosis: A Comprehensive Guide by Tad James has become a modern classic and the bedrock of initiation into the profession today for many clinical hypnotherapists and NLP practitioners. Tad James views the trance phenomenon as the optimal means of plummeting the depths of the client’s intangible unconscious mind in order to promote subliminal learning and to activate the mind-body healing connection.
Tad James primarily examines the work of Milton Erickson and offers the reader an insight into functional working practices as well as allaying many ludicrous misconceptions about hypnotic phenomenon. The author subscribes to Erickson’s permissive hypnotic patterns of indirection suggestion and his paradigm of client-preparation, trance induction and utilisation in order to effect therapeutic change. Hypnosis sets out clearly and concisely the technicalities of the Milton Model of Hypnotic Language Patterns, with its key components of ambiguity and utilisation, as the most effective means of gaining rapport and permitting effective communication with the client’s unconscious mind. The NLP Meta Model, with its concepts of distortion, generalisation and deletion, is also evaluated as the solution to identifying the client’s presenting symptoms and unravelling the information gained from his personal history. In Tad James’ tribute to the master, the hypnotic metaphor is, most importantly, portrayed elegantly as if it came directly from Erickson’s lips.
The reader of Hypnosis will be guided through the process of understanding trance phenomenon, suggestibility testing, trance-levels and ideomotor questioning as well as an interactive method of hypnotherapy which contains inbuilt client-questioning. This book is admirably packed to gunnels with case-study examples and how-to-do-it guides which can either be followed to the letter or be used as a means of allowing the practitioner’s creativity to blossom.
From the work of George Estabrooks, Tad James culls the principles of progressive test-oriented inductions, deepening techniques and post-hypnotic suggestion together with the notion of bypassing the client’s conscious critical factor as expounded by Dave Elman. To the work of these pioneers, Tad James then contributes his own special ingredient from his extensive experience of NLP and Timeline Therapy practice. I am personally heartened that Tad James does not hesitate to warn NLP practitioners and clinical hypnotherapists of the limitations and contra-indications of using purely cognitive-behavioural hypnotic techniques for the client with a life-threatening illness or suffering from deep-seated traumatic distress. - Jacquelyne Morison, Course Director of Jacquelyne Morison Hypnotherapy Training
Tad James MS, PhD is President of The American Board of Hypnotherapy, one of the world’s largest hypnotherapy organisations; of Advanced Neuro-Dynamics, a leading NLP firm; of The American Institute of Hypnotherapy, the world’s leading hypnosis institute; and of American Pacific University, a Hawaii –based institution offering alternative degrees in Hypnosis, Psychology and Esoteric Studies
