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Hypnotic Realities: The Induction of Clinical Hypnosis and Forms of Indirect Suggestion

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I have read this book many times and continue to learn more and more each time. This book is a definite must for the student learning indirect suggestion

My continued reading on the subject of Ericksonian hypnotherapy has often taken me over the same familiar territory. It's a good territory, and there's no denying the satisfaction of having my opinions validated by more experienced heads, but Hypnotic Realities took me a step above that.

Erickson and Rossi's analysis of how Erickson approached hypnosis, language, calibration, and the unique individuality of every hypnotic subject managed to strike me as fresh and new, even after I'd consumed dozens of books on the subject, and taught me delightful new ideas on almost every page. If you're learning hypnosis and/or NLP, this is a valuable book to read and absorb and make your own.

This book was written before (but published after) Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., so the linguistic insights explored by Bandler and Grinder in Patterns will form a good background for appreciating Hypnotic Realities even more in light of what those volumes added to the understanding of Erickson's work.

This book is the first in a 3-volume set. The stuff inside is good but not very well-organized which is not easy to search for info inside and also bit confusing. Get "Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook" (which is the second in the series) instead; I think it's the best in the 3-volume set. "Experiencing Hypnosis", the 3rd book is also better than "Hypnotic Realities".

This is a handbook in how to use Ericksonian hypnosis so it is not easy to read because this is not a boook for reading but a truly trainig handbook. I do not recommend to read the second book on this series(Hypnotherapy 1979).I have translated it into the spanish so soon it will be sell in your favourite bookstores in all countries with spanish as the mother tongue.You must have it!
I am the president of the Milton H Erickson Institute of San Luis Potosí, S.L.P.,México and I have been teaching clinical hypnosis for more than 30 years so I am very acquainted with this text.

If you want to know some tecnics about hypnosis, read it. You will find a lot of interestings things

Everything is hypnosis. Nothing is hypnosis. Milton Ericons answers the question. What is indirect suggestion? What is hypnosis? If any human being was able to truly answer this question, we'd all have discovered the mystical secrets of the Universe.