Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy, Volume 1

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Summary: Boring!
Review: "Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy, Volume 1" by Roger P. Allen is a small 160 page work that provides a series of rather uninformative hypnosis scripts. The book initially provides an Inducing Hypnosis section and then a series of Deepeners including The Candle, The Mind's Eye, The Garden and the usual Stair technique.

I did find the broad section entitled Suggestion Therapy to be some what informative but found the section on Pain Management to be depressingly short and uninteresting.

The work may deserve a place on every hypnotist's bookshelf due to its ways of NOT writing an informative script. Of all the techniques I have used and read over the past 20 years, I have never seen such long and at times boring narratives. I was not impressed with the long and pointless metaphors which I believe a previous reviewer mentioned. Simplicity is at times much better in hypnosis than a complex and at times long and pointless story. Although the concept of misdirection may be used, the script should never be BORING.

Prof. Carl Edwin Lindgren, DEd
Hypnosis and Biofeedback
Former, Fellow of the Royal Society of Health


Rating:
Summary: A MUST FOR HYPNOTHERAPY STUDENTS
Review: An absolute must for any student of hypnotherapy. Excellent material, well presented in a readable and helpful manner.

Rating:
Summary: A MUST FOR HYPNOTHERAPY STUDENTS
Review: An absolute must for any student of hypnotherapy. Excellent material, well presented in a readable and helpful manner.

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Summary: TERRIBLE!
Review: I don't think any one in the US would want to use these scripts! I have never heard a hypnotherapist use scripts, techniques or language that was anything like this. I returned this book within minutes of receiving it. The scripts were quite lengthy, and a lot of them were metaphors told in a long, biased story. I would quote parts of it for you, but I already packed it up to send back. This is the first time I have ever returned a book!

Rating:
Summary: TERRIBLE!
Review: I don't think any one in the US would want to use these scripts! I have never heard a hypnotherapist use scripts, techniques or language that was anything like this. I returned this book within minutes of receiving it. The scripts were quite lengthy, and a lot of them were metaphors told in a long, biased story. I would quote parts of it for you, but I already packed it up to send back. This is the first time I have ever returned a book!

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Summary: Brilliant scripts
Review: Scripts for just about every ailment and situation. Excellent languaging. Very useful. A great help for any Hypnotherapist. I use it in the Hypnosis section when I'm teaching NLP. It helps my delegates get an idea of how to structure their trance language. A great help. Thanks to Roger Allen for this contribution to the world of Hypnotherapy.