Michael D. Yapko

I was very impressed by "Trancework." This was handed down to me by a clinical psychologist who was no longer in private practice and gave up using hypnosis (he went academic) and I was one of his students who was technically still a lay hypnotist but wanted to be clinical. This book is primarily Ericksonian (which is my favourite) but if you are not keen on that perspective you are not going to like it. It is a very large book, 450 pages, and is incredibly well written. I could see this as possibly being used as a textbook assuming there are any introductory hypnosis classes out there in academia. I think one of my favourite little charts was the difference in different types of hypnosis in Appendix A.… (lisätietoja)

This is a very good overview of clinical hypnosis. "Trancework" examines the practice of hypnosis from a Eriksonian perspective. It offers an indepth examination of the charateristics of the hypnotic state and the tools that state provides access to for the purposes of clinical work with a client. Will it teach you how to hypnotize someone? I doubt it. But, if you can already work in the hypnotic state it gives a clearer idea of the trance and how to help people within that state. It is well written and designed for study. It contains study questions and brief outlines of important points. Well organized. Contains some practical application script examples. Good all around intermediate work on hypnosis.… (lisätietoja)