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Hypnotherapy For Dummies
An easy-to-follow, reassuring and responsible guide that shows how you can use hypnotherapy to identify and overcome unhealthy modes of thinking, deal with emotional issues, improve performance, and banish bad habits. Whether you’re seeking to overcome anxiety or depression, improve your performance professionally or personally, lose weight or beat an addiction, hypnotherapy can help you make the changes you want.
300 pages, Paperback
First published September 29, 2006
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June 20, 2014
Hypnotherapy For Dummies is written for people who want to work with a hypnotherapist to help them solve their goals. If you want to learn how to be a hypnotherapist, this isn't the book for you. It's a great reference for hypnotherapists, however, as it spends a lot of time talking about typical problems clients will bring you to solve and how to solve them. It emphasises professionalism: in the training you receive to become a hypnotherapist and in the way you work with clients.
March 31, 2024
I love books for dummies because they are so well written and clear, making learning a new topic so much easier for beginners.
I do not know anything about hypnotherapy except what I see in the movies haha. So this book helped debunk some of the myths of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and also demystifies them.
Broadly, hypnosis is a technique which is used by hypnotherapist for therapeutic purposes, to help clients access their inner resources to overcome a particular goal or challenge. Essentially, it is to help the client get into a relaxed but focused state and then using other techniques to help the client explore the problem and different ways to see the challenge differently and deal with it better.
One of the key myths debunked in this book is that you do not cede control to the hypnotherapist. You remain aware and in control and can always come out of the session when you want to. There is no way a hypnotherapist can make you moo like a cow or do things you do not want to.
These other techniques that a hypnotherapist can employ to support you include neuro-linguistic programming techniques, Thought Field Therapy or Eye Desensitisation and Reprogramming. They can also include regression or progression - these are just different terms for using a different perspective for the particular goal or challenge you want to address. Eg, for someone afraid of dentists, regression therapy can guide him back to a time (eg as a child) when he developed the fear to discover its origin and to see the situation in safe environment so as to adjust the view of the original experience.
I now realise that I have been using hypnotherapy for myself in various ways. Eg Dr Martin Rossman's book on self healing through guided imagery was very useful. Also, I do Buddhist metta meditation (living kindness meditation), I put myself in a relaxed but focused state, and practise the feeling of loving kindness in all directions so I get used to what it is like to turn on loving kindness at will during my daily life. In yoga, we also practise yoga nidra and other forms of visualisation practises.
So I am very happy to get this introduction on hypnotherapy, and better understand the useful work that hypnotherapist do. The book also provides guidelines of what to look for in a hypnotherapist (not much different for a therapist eg willing to listen, work with you to set goals, willing to be flexible, transparent about prices etc). It also applies common sense and tell the reader that hypnotherapy can't solve all your problems or change your brain but it supports your specific goal as you work towards it eg quit smoking.
This is overall, a useful and quick read for a topic I know little about. And provides a good foundation for further reading and exploration.
I do not know anything about hypnotherapy except what I see in the movies haha. So this book helped debunk some of the myths of hypnosis and hypnotherapy, and also demystifies them.
Broadly, hypnosis is a technique which is used by hypnotherapist for therapeutic purposes, to help clients access their inner resources to overcome a particular goal or challenge. Essentially, it is to help the client get into a relaxed but focused state and then using other techniques to help the client explore the problem and different ways to see the challenge differently and deal with it better.
One of the key myths debunked in this book is that you do not cede control to the hypnotherapist. You remain aware and in control and can always come out of the session when you want to. There is no way a hypnotherapist can make you moo like a cow or do things you do not want to.
These other techniques that a hypnotherapist can employ to support you include neuro-linguistic programming techniques, Thought Field Therapy or Eye Desensitisation and Reprogramming. They can also include regression or progression - these are just different terms for using a different perspective for the particular goal or challenge you want to address. Eg, for someone afraid of dentists, regression therapy can guide him back to a time (eg as a child) when he developed the fear to discover its origin and to see the situation in safe environment so as to adjust the view of the original experience.
I now realise that I have been using hypnotherapy for myself in various ways. Eg Dr Martin Rossman's book on self healing through guided imagery was very useful. Also, I do Buddhist metta meditation (living kindness meditation), I put myself in a relaxed but focused state, and practise the feeling of loving kindness in all directions so I get used to what it is like to turn on loving kindness at will during my daily life. In yoga, we also practise yoga nidra and other forms of visualisation practises.
So I am very happy to get this introduction on hypnotherapy, and better understand the useful work that hypnotherapist do. The book also provides guidelines of what to look for in a hypnotherapist (not much different for a therapist eg willing to listen, work with you to set goals, willing to be flexible, transparent about prices etc). It also applies common sense and tell the reader that hypnotherapy can't solve all your problems or change your brain but it supports your specific goal as you work towards it eg quit smoking.
This is overall, a useful and quick read for a topic I know little about. And provides a good foundation for further reading and exploration.
March 7, 2021
Easy to read, informative.
April 20, 2020
missing real and empirical evidence
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January 17, 2011its really A nice book :)
November 6, 2014
I found this book a bit disappointing as it really didn’t say much about hypnotherapy, it seems to be a guide for people that want to find a therapist.
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