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Summary: Revised Review
Review: Learn about Milton's Strategy of hypnosis and the expert modeling of John Grinder and Richard Bandler, co-founders of NLP. Learn directly the patterns of hypnosis used for creating change. A book chock full of metaphors and stories to weave change in personality.
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Summary: A book about Milton Erickson's Strategy
Review: Learn about Milton's Strategy of hypnosis and the expert modeling of Richard Bandler, founder of NLP and DHE. Learn directly the patterns of hypnosis used for creating change. A book chock full of metaphors and stories to weave change in personality.
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Summary: A book about Milton Erickson's Strategy
Review: Learn about Milton's Strategy of hypnosis and the expert modeling of Richard Bandler, founder of NLP and DHE. Learn directly the patterns of hypnosis used for creating change. A book chock full of metaphors and stories to weave change in personality.
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Summary: One of the very few "MUST HAVE" books about persuasion
Review: Rated as an 8 ONLY because of its difficulty, this ranks as one of the few references that the serious student of hypnosis and persuasive language really MUST HAVE, and should read. The exhaustive list of presuppositions in language is, itself, a goldmine of information and study, and can reward diligent study and practice with exponential elevations in skill.If you want to know how Erickson did what he did, which even he admitted often escaped him, this book reveals the structure behind the master's skill. If you buy only a few books about hypnosis or persuasion, make this one of them
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Summary: Convincing fiction
Review: Sir Cyril Burt achieved unparalleled results in researching the effects of environment and heredity on identical twins. Only after his death did it become clear that the alleged research had never happened, that Burt lied to further what he perceived to be a greater truth.
Sadly, the possibility must be considered that Milton Erickson did likewise. Not only do the results he claimed to have achieved involve impossible to believe coincidences and phenomena far beyond anything ever achieved by anyone else. They also include results that even unshakable believers in hypnotism's real existence concede are unreplicable and should be impossible. If Erickson really accomplished what he claimed in various medical journals, then he was a miracleworker beyond compare. Somehow I doubt that.
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Summary: A classic on the linguistic techniqes of Milton Erickson
Review: This book (Volume I) is worth reading by anyone interested in hypnosis. The authors present the major linguistic techniques that Erickson used to induce and maintain hypnosis, as well as his methods of doing hypnotherapy. They approach Erickson from the discipline of linguistics, so the reading is a bit technical at times, but perfectly understandable if you stick with it. They review the same material many times to make it very clear to the reader. I wish there were an accompanying audiotape of Erickson so that the reader could hear the analogical markings that Erickson uses with his speech to clients. Anyone seriously interested in Erickson's approach to hypnosis should read this book.
Volume II is nearly incomprehensive to someone who does not have a Ph.D. in linguistics. The authors in Volume II appear incapable of expressing their valuable ideas in simple English, which may be a sign that they really don't understand what they are saying well enough to communicate it to others. Rather than spending your hard-earned money on Volume II, you might read other authors like Steve Gilligan (Therapeutic Trances) who covers the same material in plain English rather than quasi-mathematic formulas and mumbo-jumbo about 4-tuples, etc.
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Summary: Rare and Valuable Book
Review: This books value lays in it ability to prepare the reader in understanding the complex language patterns in everyday language in such a way that the uncouncious patterns that are present in the syntactic portion of the mind that converts all experience in to words (deleting, distorting, and generalizing) are easily spotted for the purpose of generative learning, behavioral change, or therapy. With the use of the models contained in the book, all other types of change and therapic change methods will seem archaic to a magnitute equeal to ten fold of you skill level that you will have... In other words, your language will be POWERFULL and PRECISE.
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: This is a great book if you are interested in the more analytical and theoretical side of hypnosis and/or hypnosis used in therapy. -- A linguistic perspective. -- Volume I covers the model overall
Volume II goes a little more into dealing with incongruent clients, and a linguistic model of representation. [the 4-tuple, R-Operator and C-Operator] THE GOOD -- [Although] It is not a very quick read... because everything in this book is actually useful. You will not want to rush through this one, and it is a book you will want to go back to. It does a good job covering the Milton Model, the language patterns and non-verbal communication. This book is not for everybody though... THE BAD -- Personally, there isn't anything I dislike about this book, but I do realize that some people have different interests and reasons for wanting to learn about hypnosis. First of all, this book is probably not for beginners. If you are, it would take a little longer to finish thoroughly. An book on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that covers both the Meta-model and the Milton Model (consider "Introducing NLP", by Joseph O'Connor et al. -- it has a green cover) will provide a great introduction/pre-read to this book.
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Summary: An Excellent Book
Review: This is a great book if you are interested in the more analytical and theoretical side of hypnosis and/or hypnosis used in therapy. -- A linguistic perspective. -- Volume I covers the model overall
Volume II goes a little more into dealing with incongruent clients, and a linguistic model of representation. [the 4-tuple, R-Operator and C-Operator] THE GOOD -- [Although] It is not a very quick read... because everything in this book is actually useful. You will not want to rush through this one, and it is a book you will want to go back to. It does a good job covering the Milton Model, the language patterns and non-verbal communication. This book is not for everybody though... THE BAD -- Personally, there isn't anything I dislike about this book, but I do realize that some people have different interests and reasons for wanting to learn about hypnosis. First of all, this book is probably not for beginners. If you are, it would take a little longer to finish thoroughly. An book on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) that covers both the Meta-model and the Milton Model (consider "Introducing NLP", by Joseph O'Connor et al. -- it has a green cover) will provide a great introduction/pre-read to this book.
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