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Handbook of Hypnotic Suggestions and Metaphors

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I purchased this book several years ago, when I first entered private practice as a hypnotherapist. Nine years later, I still refer to it frequently. As a previous reviewer commented, many of the scripts can be used verbatim; however, I use them mostly as guides and personalize them to the client. It's a must-have book for every hypnotherapist's library.

The book contains brief introduction to Ericksonian hypnotic language patterns / how to formulate hypnotic and posthypnotic suggestions with 14 major sections of short hypnotherapy scripts for dealing with just about any issue a hypnotherapist may encounter in practice.

Some of the sections are: pain management, self-esteem, anxiety, hypnosis for cancer patients, hypnosis for sleep disorders, hypnosis for addictions, weight loss, academic performance, and hypnosis for children.

While I do not recommend that you necessarily use the scripts verbatim as they are written, this book may serve as an invaluable resource for ideas and possible suggestions to help you in your work as hypnotherapist.

A super rescource for the practitioner regardless of profession. Many, many helpful suggestions and hints to enable the appropriate therapy to reach target. The text gives scripts, "stories", and suggestions for you to utilize in your practice. This is a great source for ideas in framing suggestion. I have used this text extensively, for pain relief, distraction, and for post-op recuperation for my patients.

Corey Hammond has artfully combined the works of skilled hypnotherapists into a comprehensive text which details the many uses and techniques of hypnotherapy. Fondly called by myself and my colleagues, "The Big Red Book", it remains one of the few texts I refer to on a daily basis. It stimulates my own creativity as a clinician and provides thought-provoking and incredibly useful solutions to difficult clinical problems. I recommend this work highly.

I discovered this book during my Clinical Hypnotherapy training and found it a wonderful tool. I've been in practice since 1992 and still refer to this manual for script ideas. Many of the suggestions can be used straight from the book, although I tend to modify and/or adapt them to suit my client's needs. It is an important part of my hypnotherapy library.

This book is full of many different suggestions, comments & information. It covers many, many different topics/issues people are going to hypnotherapists for help with. It is well worth the money to invest in your future as a hypnotherapist.
The book is hard cover, with over 600 pages. I began using it within a few days with 2 clients of mine. The suggestions I used out of the book were very helpful & worked very well.
Denise

It isn't necessary to be a clinician to benefit from this book. Some of the suggestions are written for self-hypnosis and the rest seem to adapt trivially for use for self-hypnosis. Taping selected suggestions will help but if you study the long suggestions and got the gist of them, you can probably memorize enough to be useful. Reading thru these suggestions seems to provide a great sense of what effective hypnosis is really about.

Self-hypnosis isn't taught in this book, but there are many inexpensive books that do teach it. I learned from Chapter 4 from Leslie LeCron's "Self-Hypnotism: The Technique and Its Use In Daily Living". Some people say hypnosis is a hoax and I don't have any experience to say whether advanced practices can work like using hypnotism to prepare for surgery. But if you consider inducing self-hypnosis to just be going into a quiet, "inwardly-focused" state and doing suggestions as just a form of self-talk, then it's certainly doable. The question remains whether it helps. I've found that my self-improvement efforts usually take a long time (months or years) to establish better habits, during which I review lists of goals often and also use suggestions during self-hypnosis (e.g. quiet self-talk). I very slowly see some improvement and I enjoy the self-hypnosis, so I've kept at it without being sure it's the self-hypnosis that is leading to the changes. But thinking of it just as talking to myself over and over until I gradually change, it does seem as if that self-talk has some impact.

A subset of this book half or less its size (and half or less of its price) would have been adequate for me as a layperson. Sections like "Preparation for Surgery" or "Hypnosis for Obstetrics" I could do without. But so far I do feel this book is a good value for me. Just for the ego-strengthening material, it will probably take me more than a year to get reasonably acquainted with the appropriate suggestions.

I am a professional hypnotherapist. And this book was recommended to me as a useful reference. I can't see what all the fuss is about. I honestly think this book is overrated as well as overpriced.

It is clear a lot of work went into the book which deserves some credit. Also the theme is a great one.

The first part of the book is actually a great reference about hypnosis. But the actual "scripts" are of limited value: the therapist can glean some ideas there, but they are not scripts you can directly use for your own clients/patients. You'd be better off buying a book of actual usable hypnotic scripts.

I'm an avid collector of hypnosis books because I am a professional hypnotist always on the lookout for more techniques. This book is a wonderful reference book for novices and advanced hypnotists on all levels. The beginning starts with dos and don'ts of hypnosis, as well as "if...then" and "when...then" and "as this happens, this will happens" phrases for later referencing. The end of the book has a large selection of hypnosis scripts for everything from relieving pain to self-confidence to helping cancer patients. You name it, it's in this book.

I've used this book so many times, I've lost count. It really is a valuable MUST-HAVE book that any serious hypnotist should own. It's well worth it.

This is a Great Resource for any clinical hypnotherapists Library. It is well worth the money. I was skeptical at first, but its unbelievable the amount of information and scripts that make up this wonderful resource.