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A friendly and brief guide to the essentials of hypnosis.
Popular author Bill OHanlon offers an inviting and reassuring guide to the essentials of hypnosis, alleviating the newcomers anxieties about how to make the most of this clinical tool. This brief book illustrates the benefits of solution-oriented hypnosis, which draws on the work of the pioneering therapist Milton Erickson (with whom OHanlon studied) and emphasizes doing what is needed to get resultswhich, more often than not, means trusting that the client holds within him- or herself answers or knowledge that need only be tapped or released by the therapist. OHanlon covers the key aspects of hypnosis, including: using possibility words and phrases; using passive language; and inducing trance. OHanlon offers practical tips and friendly encouragement for the novice hypnotherapistin his characteristic warm, reassuring, and humorous style.
