What's Your Favorite Hypnosis Education Book?

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Permalink Reply by Craig Homonnay on June 24, 2010 at 8:49pm

As well as the ones already mentioned ..I like Ideomotor Signals for Rapid Hypnoanalysis: A How-To Manual by Dabney M. Ewin, Bruce N. Eimer.....it is a really good book :-)

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Permalink Reply by Sherry Hood, M.H., C.CHt. on June 25, 2010 at 5:32am

I have a lot of hypnotherapy books and think they all contain their gems. I love all of the books that have already been mentioned. I would like to add Tim Simmerman's book "Medical Hypnotherapy - Principles and Methods of Practice."

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Permalink Reply by Stephanie Voss on June 27, 2010 at 3:51pm

Hi -- I loved all these resources and have two more --
per a recommendation earlier (I thought from Michael Ellman, whose advice here is always so useful) I recently got Michael Yapko's text, Trancework, which is a bit dry but as I happen to agree with most of his opinions I'm loving it. Plus it's well researched, has lots of citations and so forth.
Also just picked up 101 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Using Hypnosis by Dabney Ewin, MD, which is one of those brief but fun and useful books.

In terms of books I use in practice daily, I often start a session with an adaptation from the Hammond book. In fact, although I have Edgar Barnett's text book as well as the one he wrote for the public, Unlock Your MInd, the material of his I use regularly is a script from the big red hammond book.... it's just got that process down nicely and concisely.

I also rely on inspiration from a book many other folks seem to use (as seen by the number of scripts I've seen floating around with uncredited sections lifted right out of this one): Hypnotherapy Scripts: A Neo-Ericksonian Approach To Persuasive Healing by Ronald Havens and Catherine Walters (Hardcover - Oct. 1, 1989) Great ideas and also a good section on writing customized scripts for your own clients, which I see as the goal of any script use.... most of what I do is more running a process than a script, thus taking the clients own imagery, language etcetera into account, but having all the tools is way better than not....

Great question -- I've copied many of these resources and am continuing to build my library. For most of my life I've preferred easy fiction - mysteries, etcetera, but I can't put these hypnosis books down! The mind is way too cool!

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Permalink Reply by Michael Ellner on June 28, 2010 at 4:35am

HI Stephanie,

Thanks for the kind words-

If any one wants to get a sense of our innate healing abilities - I recommend the old classic: The Will To Be Well -by Neville Hodgkinson

Michael E. (Ellner)

Stephanie Voss said:

Hi -- I loved all these resources and have two more --
per a recommendation earlier (I thought from Michael Ellman, whose advice here is always so useful) I recently got Michael Yapko's text, Trancework, which is a bit dry but as I happen to agree with most of his opinions I'm loving it. Plus it's well researched, has lots of citations and so forth.
Also just picked up 101 Things I Wish I'd Known When I Started Using Hypnosis by Dabney Ewin, MD, which is one of those brief but fun and useful books.

In terms of books I use in practice daily, I often start a session with an adaptation from the Hammond book. In fact, although I have Edgar Barnett's text book as well as the one he wrote for the public, Unlock Your MInd, the material of his I use regularly is a script from the big red hammond book.... it's just got that process down nicely and concisely.

I also rely on inspiration from a book many other folks seem to use (as seen by the number of scripts I've seen floating around with uncredited sections lifted right out of this one): Hypnotherapy Scripts: A Neo-Ericksonian Approach To Persuasive Healing by Ronald Havens and Catherine Walters (Hardcover - Oct. 1, 1989) Great ideas and also a good section on writing customized scripts for your own clients, which I see as the goal of any script use.... most of what I do is more running a process than a script, thus taking the clients own imagery, language etcetera into account, but having all the tools is way better than not....

Great question -- I've copied many of these resources and am continuing to build my library. For most of my life I've preferred easy fiction - mysteries, etcetera, but I can't put these hypnosis books down! The mind is way too cool!

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Permalink Reply by Sheilah Davis MA., CH. on June 29, 2010 at 9:16am

Thank you!

Craig Homonnay said:

As well as the ones already mentioned ..I like Ideomotor Signals for Rapid Hypnoanalysis: A How-To Manual by Dabney M. Ewin, Bruce N. Eimer.....it is a really good book :-)

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Permalink Reply by Sheilah Davis MA., CH. on June 29, 2010 at 9:22am

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for the great answers. You have all been very generous with your expertise and it is very much appreciated.

This morning, I had the idea that I should post this list of books to my various websites because I am always contacted by people wanting to learn about hypnosis.

I'd like to create a running list of books with the phrase.... Recommended by [name of hypnotherapist/hypnotist] with a link to your website. If you like that idea, please send me with your link and I'll create the page and post the link here for your review. I'll update the page everytime I get a recommendation.

Wishing you all the best of success,

Sheilah

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Permalink Reply by Saul Rosenfeld on June 29, 2010 at 10:39am

Hi Sheilah,

"A CRITICAL History of Hypnotism: the UNauthorized story"
by Saul Marc Rosenfeld

www.HistoryOfHypnotism.com

Reviews and testimonials from the following authorities who all heartily recommend it can be read on the website:

Michael Ellner
Michael D. Yapko Ph.D
Steve Gurgevich Ph.D.(University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine)
Carl Hammerschlag M.D.
E. P. Kremer M.D.
Lynn Leibowitz Ph. D. (Postdoctoral Supervisor Psychotherapy N.Y.U.)
Rubin Battino Ph.D. (Past President Ohio Ericksonian Society)
Josephine P. Teague (Cambridge College of Hypnotherapy)
Pat Williams ("Human Givens" journal)
"Fidelity": Journal for the National Council of Psychotherapists" (Spring 2009 issue)
"Erickson Foundation Newsletter" (Vol. 29 #1, 2009)
"American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis" (July 2009)


Thanks for the great idea!

Saul







Sheilah Davis MA., CH. said:

Hi Everyone,
Thank you for the great answers. You have all been very generous with your expertise and it is very much appreciated. This morning, I had the idea that I should post this list of books to my various websites because I am always contacted by people wanting to learn about hypnosis.

I'd like to create a running list of books with the phrase.... Recommended by [name of hypnotherapist/hypnotist] with a link to your website. If you like that idea, please send me with your link and I'll create the page and post the link here for your review. I'll update the page everytime I get a recommendation.

Wishing you all the best of success,

Sheilah

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Permalink Reply by Aline Hoffman on June 29, 2010 at 12:16pm

Good question, Sheilah. Required reading for my hypnotherapy students: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz and Art of Hypnotherapy by C. Roy Hunter.
Though not required, I suggest the following books:
Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
Molecules of Emotion by Candace Pert
and Monsters and Magical Sticks by Heller & Steele

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Permalink Reply by Aline Hoffman on June 29, 2010 at 12:21pm

What a cool idea! I just listed some books but hadn't read this suggestion. my website is www.solutionalternatives.net

Sheilah Davis MA., CH. said:

Hi Everyone,

Thank you for the great answers. You have all been very generous with your expertise and it is very much appreciated.

This morning, I had the idea that I should post this list of books to my various websites because I am always contacted by people wanting to learn about hypnosis.

I'd like to create a running list of books with the phrase.... Recommended by [name of hypnotherapist/hypnotist] with a link to your website. If you like that idea, please send me with your link and I'll create the page and post the link here for your review. I'll update the page everytime I get a recommendation.

Wishing you all the best of success,

Sheilah

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Permalink Reply by Greg Turner on June 29, 2010 at 12:34pm

Hi Sheila,

If I were teaching a course in hypnosis, these books would be required reading:
"Tranceformations" by Richard Bandler and John Grinder
"Training Trances" by John Overdurf
"Trances People Live" by Stephen Wolinsky
"The Symptom Path to Enlightenment" by Ernest Rossi
"Solution Oriented Hypnosis" by Bill O'Hanlon
"Taproots" by Bill O'Hanlon

My website is http://www.SFBayHypnosis.com

Thanks so much.
Greg

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Permalink Reply by Michael Miller on June 30, 2010 at 3:13pm

I will second both the Art of Hypnosis and the Art of Hypnotherapy by Roy Hunter - both great books and will give you complete A to Z knowledge. I will also second Trance-formations by Richard Bandler.

A fellow hypnotist just let me borrow Hypnotherapy Handbook by Kevin Hogan and I was SHOCKED and AMAZED at how good it is.

My next purchase will be Transforming Therapy by Gil Boyne.

That's my $0.02

Sincerely,

Michael Miller
Atlanta Hypnosis

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