Bibliotherapy as an Aid to Your Hypnosis Practice

Hi Folks,

I've expanded the scope of the Book Reviews group to include titles which you have found to be personally helpful to your clients as well as to yourselves. Some of you are already doing this, of course, and many titles are helpful to therapists and clients alike.

What books have you found to be particularly useful to help your clients "to dream the impossible dream," and "to be better far than they are?" Please include a couple of sentences about the book itself and why you are recommending it. And if you would care to add it to the Book Reviews group, please do so!

Many thanks in advance,

Don ("Quijote")

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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin on December 9, 2011 at 9:36am

Winning without Intimidation by Bob Burg--I've recommended it to several clients who lack social confidence or have to deal with stressful interpersonal situations.

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Permalink Reply by Don on December 9, 2011 at 10:16am

Hi James,
Sounds great!
I'll check it out. Thanks.
Don

James Hazlerig said:

Winning without Intimidation by Bob Burg--I've recommended it to several clients who lack social confidence or have to deal with stressful interpersonal situations.

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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on December 9, 2011 at 11:35am

The Speed of Trust by Steven Covey

I find that many of my clients lack trust in themselves in addition to having a deficiency of trust in life and others in general and although it's created in a professional, business context, this book contains gems for everyone.

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Permalink Reply by Dennis Atkinson on December 9, 2011 at 11:41am

Love, Medicine, and Miracles by Dr. Bernie Siegel. The book completely changed the way I chose to view living life ... I now recommend it to all my clients, especially those who have chronic illness or disease.

The book is about lessons learned about self-healing from a surgeon's experience with exceptional patients.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Kennedy on December 9, 2011 at 11:57am

An Unquiet Mind - http://books.google.ca/books/about/An_unquiet_mind.html?id=1TlF6SaJ...

When I have met people with a specific diagnosis, one of the questions I ask is what book should I read to better understand what you are going through. This was recommended by someone diagnosed as bi-polar. It helped me at lot.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on December 9, 2011 at 12:19pm

I recommend both of these excellent reads:

The Will To Be Well: The Real Alternative Medicine

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Will-be-Well-Neville-Hodgkinson/dp/08772865...

Think Yourself Healthy: How Beliefs, Moods and Thoughts Can Affect Your Health (Paperback)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/0722518838

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Permalink Reply by Alonzo Cavazos, Ed.D., LCSW, LPC on December 9, 2011 at 12:35pm

To All:

Great suggestions and book recommendations.

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Permalink Reply by Don on December 9, 2011 at 2:39pm

I agree with Alonzo. We're getting some great recommendations here, and my deepest thanks to all.
My own all-time favorite is Claude Bristol's "The Magic of Believing," which kept my faith alive that I was going to make it through graduate school in spite of all the roadblocks that life put in my way. The author does not go into the philosophical or theological implications of why it works, he just fills his book with inspiring stories of people whose unwavering confidence allowed them to succeed against all odds.

I have used it with clients who have so many problems in their life that if they were not depressed, it would have to mean that they were crazy! It may simply be a powerful form of autosuggestion, but whatever it is, it works.

I especially like to combine it with suggestions for positive emotion of life changing intensity, such as the ones that I use in my hyperempiric therapy of depression.
Don

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on December 9, 2011 at 3:15pm

Hyperempiric experiences make sense for assisting depressed clients and I imagine the power of suggestion and the healing powers of autohypnosis are amplifed by the psychophysiological process of hyperempiric lightening up... Just thinking out loud...

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Permalink Reply by Don on December 10, 2011 at 3:35am

Hi Michael,
I agree completely. But I've recently had an AHA! Experience which led me to think of suggestion as an art form which alows us to work directly with experience itself as an artistic medium. Hyperempiria, then, would mean using intense or intensely meaningful experiences as a way to change people. I wouldhave be most grateful if youyou would carehave to chek out the stand-alone pages on the right column of my blog at www.hyperempiria.com and let me know if it makes any sense. Many thanks in advance.
Don-

Michael Ellner said:

Hyperempiric experiences make sense for assisting depressed clients and I imagine the power of suggestion and the healing powers of autohypnosis are amplifed by the psychophysiological process of hyperempiric lightening up... Just thinking out loud...

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Permalink Reply by Don on December 13, 2011 at 9:05am

WThere is a psychologist in New Jersey who has constucted a formidable reading list on his copyrighted Web site which he has now turned into a bookstore at www.drlopresti.com. It's onthis thelowerleft side ofof his Web page
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Don

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Permalink Reply by Wilf Archer on December 14, 2011 at 4:07am

I recommend going back to some of the old classics by Mark Twain or Dickens, etc. However, my strongest recommendations are Psychopictography by Vernon Howard and the Master Key by Charles Haanel. I give all my clients my download link for The Master Key.

Wilf