George Gafner & Sonja Benson – Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions –

Hmm, they actually quite good, i’m as shocked as your are, and a bit embarrased to admit, i actually learnt something ! If your into hypnosis grab this, if your just casual or a keyboard jokey wait for igor’s deep trance training manual, it’ll be seeded tommorow or sooner. This is great tool for those who are interested in furthering thier knowledge of hypnosis in all its aspects For those of you who are a bit stupid… scriptS >>>>> MORE scriptS>>> NEW SCRIPPPTTS>>>>p.s. if anyone actually bothers reading this book and understanding it instead of just leaching you’ll get a good idea of ericksonian hypnosis and wont need scripts anymore, wellcome to the club In Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions, George Gafner and Sonja Benson provide over two dozen detailed scripts of inducing hypnotic 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 separate chapter provides inductions appropriate for use with children. This book could be more appropriately titled the Ericksonian-oriented Handbook of Hypnotic Inductions. The authors report that they are guided by the work of Milton H. Erickson and those who have built upon his foundation for influencing behavior change-Steve Gilligan, Gay Haley, D. Corydon Hammond, Bill O’Hanlon, Steven and Carol Lankton, Ernest L. Rossi, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brent Geary, and many others. Gafner and Benson further state that for the most part, clients who express an interest in trance work will be hypnotized to some extent, and much clinical work can be done when a client is in a mild or medium trance. Milton Erickson and his successors have popularized the more general and permissive approach that the authors term the “new hypnosis” (p.12). Most of the inductions in this book adhere to this philosophy. Included throughout this book are clinical vignettes detailing various patients’ responses in the debriefing process after they were re-alerted from hypnosis. A strength of this book is the many ways in which the debriefing process is accomplished for each of the four categories of inductions. For example, in the embedded-meaning inductions chapter, after an induction called “slowing down,” the debriefing transcript states (p. 85): Quote:http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa4087/is_200307/ai_n9238234