Through case studies and exercises, she demonstrates various therapeutic techniques, including regression, personality part retrieval, and secondary gains, and includes instructions on how to combine them for maximum effectiveness.

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Clinical Hypnotherapists reveals the ESSENTIAL Hypnosis/NLP Books he discovered in 15 years of private practice.

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The Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Books that I used the most often, during my 15 years of private practice, in the United Kingdom.

180 Expert Hypnotherapy Techniques and Procedures Including: how to expertly conduct age regression sessions. How to work with overly-analytical, resistant or nervous clients. How to covertly test your clients and use convincers that cannot fail.

Hypnotize This! is a culmination of massive project of collaboration between 33 of the world¡¦s most famous and respected hypnotherapists. These well known leaders in the field shared their very best research and experience.


This official publication of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis is the largest collection of hypnotic suggestions and metaphors ever compiled. It provides a look at what experienced clinicians actually say to their patients during hypnotic work.

This book is an extensively revised edition of a highly successful and comprehensive introductory manual for the use of clinical hypnosis in the treatment of medical and psychological problems and disorders.

I have the older hardcover. Now in its 5th edition, this classic text continues its legacy of encouraging sound clinical practice based in established scientific research. This latest edition incorporates new studies and emerging topics within the field of hypnosis.

A thoroughly practical resource. It includes: the history of hypnosis, myths and misconceptions, traditional vs. non-traditional inductions, basic and advanced inductions, language forms, utilization of ideodynamic responses, hypnotherapy without trance, basic and advanced metaphor, and more.

Hypnotherapy Scripts, 2nd Edition is a straightforward, practical guide for doing Ericksonian hypnotherapy. This book not only explains the rationale for every step in the hypnotherapeutic process, it also contains sample scripts for each step. 

With his signature wit and contrarian approach to therapy, Bandler shows how anyone can reset or reprogram problem behaviors to desired alternatives, with lasting and life-altering results. Peppered with case studies and more than thirty exercises

Detailed scripts for inducing trance, deepening, re-alerting, and debriefing. It covers beginning to advanced hypnotic inductions in four main categories: conversational inductions, embedded-meaning inductions, confusional inductions, and directive inductions.

A responsible guide for beginning and experienced hypnotherapists and clinicians, where theory is combined with transcripts and commentary, giving the reader an inside look at the tremendous range of possibilities available with regression.

Elman teaches rapid inductions, somnambulism to the Elsdaile state. He also covers health issues, such as phobias, obesity and depression.

His goal in writing this book is to enable anyone to learn how to hypnotise and to use that skill to help themselves and others. Each Techniques is described simply to enable the reader to learn them easily, and examples of how and when they have been used are also told in this book.

Hypnotherapy: A Client-Centered Approach - (Hardcover)

Some of My Favorite Hypnosis & Hypnotherapy Books

Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Basic to Advanced Techniques for the Professional - (Hardcover)

Hypnotize This! - (Paperback)

Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors - (Hardcover)

Hartland's Medical and Dental Hypnosis - (Paperback)

Trancework - (Paperback)

Ericksonian Approaches. A Comprehensive Manual - (Hardcover)

Hypnotherapy Scripts - (Hardcover)

Richard Bander's Guide to Transformation (Paperback)

Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions - (Hardcover)

Hypnotherapy: A Client-Centered Approach - (Hardcover)

Regression Hypnotherapy - (Hardcover)

Hypnotherapy - By Dave Elman - (Hardcover)

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