Listen to what I am about to tell you: do not read this book alone. You really shouldn't. In one of the most playful experiments ever put between two covers, every other section of Trance-Migrations prescribes that you read its incantatory tales out loud to a lover, friend, or confidant, in order to hypnotize in preparation for Lee Siegel's exploration of an enchanting India. To read and hear this book is to experience a particular kind of relationship, and that's precisely the point: hypnotism, the book will demonstrate, is an essential aspect of our most significant relationships, an inherent dimension of love, religion, medicine, politics, and literature, a fundamental dynamic between lover and beloved, deity and votary, physician and patient, ruler and subject, and, indeed, reader and listener. Even if you can't read this with a partner - and I stress that you certainly ought to - you will still be in rich company. There is Shambaraswami, an itinerant magician, hypnotist, and storyteller to whom villagers turn for spells that will bring them wealth or love; Jose-Custodio de Faria, a Goan priest hypnotizing young and beautiful women in nineteenth-century Parisian salons; James Esdaile, a Scottish physician for the East India Company in Calcutta, experimenting on abject Bengalis with mesmerism as a surgical anesthetic; and Lee Siegel, a writer traveling in India to learn all that he can about hypnosis, yoga, past life regressions, colonialism, orientalism, magic spells, and, above all, the power of story. And then there is you: descending through these histories - these tales within tales, trances within trances, dreams within dreams - toward a place where the distinctions between reverie and reality dissolve. Here the world within the book and that in which the book is read come startlingly together. It's one of the most creative works we have ever published, a dazzling combination of literary prowess, scholarly erudition, and psychological exploration - all tempered by warm humor and a sharp wit. It is informing, entertaining, and, above all, mesmerizing.

Jeder Mensch ist fasziniert von Hypnose. Einige empfinden Angst, andere Neugier und mache beides. Hypnose wird als Fluch und Segen empfunden und das Wissen wird scheinbar verheimlicht. Dabei kann jeder Mensch die Hypnose erlernen und daraus fur sich unglaublichen Nutzen ziehen.
Die Menschen, die sich dazu berufen fuhlen, erkennen durch die Hypnose einen neuen Weg, sich auch beruflich neu zu orientieren. Das Buch ist die erweiterte Unterlage zu einer guten Hypnose Grundausbildung ohne Vorkenntnisse mit Basis-Texten zur Raucherentwohnung, Gewichtsreduktion, Blockadenlosung, beinhaltet Phantasiereisen und Anleitungen zu einer Schnell- und Blitzhypnose, der Selbsthypnose und vielen wichtigen Informationen.
Es ist ein aus der Praxis entstandenes Grundlagenbuch fur Jedermann, der die Absicht hat, ein Hypnose Seminar zu besuchen oder erweiterte und umfangreiche Begleitunterlagen sucht.
Hypnose ist respektvoll, sanft und eine wunderbare Sache fur alle Menschen dieser Welt. Lernen wir sie kennen und schatzen und verlieren wir die Angst, die durch einige Shows und TV Sendungen geschurt wurde, sie passt nicht zu dem, was Hypnose wirklich ist.

Dans Les etats superficiels de l'hypnose, Albert de Rochas d'Aiglun, administrateur de l'Ecole Polytechnique, fait le compte rendu detaille de ses experiences dans le domaine des etats superficiels de l'hypnose. Ce livre complete son ouvrage Les etats profonds de l'hypnose. Vous y trouverez d'autres experiences passionnantes et aussi: -d'interessantes informations du point de vue medico-legal, pour servir a demasquer les auteurs de suggestions criminelles; -des indications pour l'hypnose des animaux: chiens, chats, chevaux, poissons d'aquarium, serpents; - une etude et des documents relatifs aux changements dans l'ecriture qui surviennent lorsque le sujet hypnotise change de personnalite; (graphologie) - des informations utiles pour apprendre a detecter les sujets agissant sous hypnose, - des informations pour apprendre a se liberer soi-meme d'indesirables suggestions hypnotiques. Pratiques d'hypnose - se proteger de l'hypnose - hypnose et criminalite - suggestion hypnotique - reconnaitre personnes agissant sous hypnose - hypnose des animaux.

Una introduzione scientifica, pratica, professionale. La nuova versione completa del Manuale insegna, in modo chiaro, aggiornato e preciso, tutto quello che oggi si sa dell'ipnosi in psicologia e in medicina: una psicotecnica che unisce l'intervento centrato sulla persona ad una potente strategia emotiva, cognitiva e comportamentale. Il manuale e una miniera inesauribile di dati scientifici e di tecniche operative che permettono di: rendere gli interventi psicologici e medici piu efficaci e piu sereni per il paziente; risolvere patologie psicosomatiche; ridurre ansia, stress e paura; superare le fobie; accrescere l'autostima; riuscire nello sport; smettere di fumare; migliorare le abitudini alimentari; affrontare lo studio e gli esami con sicurezza; sentirsi a proprio agio in mezzo agli altri; contrastare eventuali tentativi di manipolazione mentale da parte di terzi; e molto altro ancora. Una guida autorevole, seria, sicura, che fa riferimento diretto a piu di tremila testi scientifici accreditati. Un resoconto, documentato in ogni dettaglio, sullo stato della scienza e della pratica ipnotica, per sapere definitivamente: che cosa e la suggestione; come funziona; come si induce la trance; quando, per chi e per quali problemi e piu efficace; come si ottengono cambiamenti positivi per se e per gli altri; come si pratica l'autoipnosi; come si diventa ipnotista. L'ipnosi e considerata oggi una metodica di assoluta affidabilita soprattutto nella cultura americana. Questo manuale offre finalmente l'opportunita di conoscere fino in fondo l'ipnosi, al piu alto livello scientifico e clinico, anche per gli psicologi e per i medici europei. http: //feliceperussia.it/SchedaIpnosiManuale.html

Six-DVD set featuring sessions demonstrating: Lifting Depression Hypnosis in Relationships Healing Trauma Healing Sexual Abuse Weight Management Hypnosis With Kids - (three demonstrations) Completely re-mastered, this five-hour programme offers demonstrations based on the work of Milton H. Erickson, MD. Each of these live sessions explores the use of hypnosis within a solution-oriented approach to solving specific issues. They cover the following scenarios: Lifting Depression The experience of depression is explored and the client is gently invited into an experience of focused absorption. Hypnosis in Relationships Through the use of metaphor, a couple are helped with their problem. Healing Trauma The client enjoys walking on the beach, which is then turned into a metaphor for the opportunity to reconnect with her traumatic experience. Healing Sexual Abuse Hypnosis is used to build on a client's experience to 'produce' an event where her feeling of helplessness is re-enacted in order to imagine that the perpetrator suffers and she regains her dignity.Weight Management A woman who has had a weight problem for over 25 years finds an easy, peaceful way of changing her eating patterns. Hypnosis with Kids Three separate sessions are presented - twin boys who are always fighting, a boy who wets his bed, and a girl who is soiling herself. The children are engaged without formal hypnotic methods, so that they naturally connect with their own abilities to generate solutions.

There may have been many times when you wished you had it in you to change your life but you didn't think you knew how. Do you want to change something in your life right now? Do you lack motivation and enthusiasm? Do you feel stressed out by fear and regrets? Would you like to move forwards and get on and enjoy your life? Then this book is for you! These Entrancing Tales will debug your subconscious mind and release your true potential. Things you thought you didn't have in you will suddenly reveal themselves to you in the most unexpected ways. Entertaining and easy to read, these hypnotic stories will lead you on a journey of change and you might like to read them more than once and enjoy how they make you feel. By the end of this book, you will notice an automatic change in you. You will see things in a different light. You will have found a way of doing things you once found challenging with ease. All you need to do is find a comfortable place and read one tale at a time.

This book presents new research on hypnosis, including a clinical review comparing the effectiveness of hypnotherapy to psychoanalysis and behaviour therapy. Some of the recent clinical evidence contradicting the common criticisms and misconceptions surrounding hypnotherapy are presented, providing a good indication of how to make the best use of this tool, and to provide a rational explanation for its hard-to-believe therapeutic effects. This book also describes and illustrates the use of waking hypnosis based on the Valencia Model and applied to clinical cases considered difficult and/or emergencies. Furthermore, the relationship between hypnosis and psychoanalysis is extensively reviewed. The main assumptions of the intersubjective approach and how it is used in hypnosis, through case stories, is presented as well. Finally, this book presents evidence that the neural mechanisms of hypnosis is a fundamental prerequisite for the environmental context to provide the onset of MPI (Mass Psychogenic Illness). Other topics examined in this book include the effects of hypnosis on cancer patients and its use on people with skins disorders and procedures, as well as its effect on people with chronic pain.

Behaviour and addiction modification through self-hypnosis is the same as being hypnotised by a professional hypnotherapist. Nearly ninety-eight per cent of all people can easily place the subconscious (inner brain) into a self-induced hypnotic trance. Hypnosis is the state of the brain everyone experiences shortly when awakening from sleep. This book can train you to improve your life including how you deal with the world's greatest killer - stress.

A must-have for professional, clinical hypnotherapists, but also a wonderful resource for advocates of self-hypnosis. With well over a hundred scripts ranging from 10 difference weight loss sessions to past-life regression...this book seems to cover the full gabet. Included are therapy scripts for cancer recovery, self esteem, smoking and alcohol cessation, hypertension, memory and comprehension, attracting a soul mate, accessing the akashic records, and more. With a proven success track over the last two decades, the authors bring you scripts you can read to clients, or put on cassettes and CDs, that will make you an expert and practically guarantee results.

First published in 1994. Some episodes of depression can even be prevented, but the greater focus in this book is on responding to the experience of depression that is already present in the afflicted individual. This book represents an effort to make the extremely complex and subjective experience of depression one that can be better understood and more effectively treated. It does not represent a school of therapy in a singular way. Rather, it promotes the recognition of the diversity of human experience such that an emphasis on anyone approach will seem obviously self-limiting.

Existential philosophy provides a useful theoretical foundation for sucessful hynotherapy because it stresses the importance of the client's experience over any preconceived notions or diagnoses. By using the client's reality as the basis of clinical work, the therapist can help the client break self-destructive habits and maintain healthy patterns of behavior without relying solely on behavioral techniques. Presenting an innovative approach to psychotherapy that is firmly rooted in philosophy, "Existential Hypnotherapy" bridges the gap between technique and theory.
Addressing theoretical themes, the book's initial chapters discuss significant issues for psychotherapy in general, and hypnotherapy in particular, with special attention paid to the nature of diagnosis and concepts of addiction. Chapters introduce the reader to the work of various existential philosophers, including Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Sartre. Bound to stir controversy, the authors persuasively argue that hypnosis should not be considered a "state" or "altered consciousness," and that there is no such thing as self-hypnosis. Instead, they demonstrate that all clinical hypnosis belongs to the therapist-patient dialogue.
The book then focuses on specific hypnotherapy techniques that may be linked to desired therapeutic outcomes. These strategies include ways to help patients manage anxiety, and empower them to make needed life changes; methods for illuminating the existential meaning of symptoms to help patients break bad habits; and the utilizization of patients' metaphors in treatment. Also discussed is the inadequacy of measurement scales that are supposed to determine a patient's ability to be hypnotized.
Unique and thought-provoking, "Existential Hypnotherapy" is an important guide for any practitioner in the mental health field who uses clinical hynosis as a tool, regardless of his or her training or orientation. Providing an accessible review of the basic principles of existential thought, it is also useful for instructors and students using philosophy to ground their psychological work.

It has been said that hypnosis is a collection of techniques in need of a unifying theory.' (James A. Hall, "Hypnosis: A Jungian Perspective"). While the varied substrates of these techniques preclude the formation of any one theory of hypnosis, this volume presents a state-of-the-science' view of existing theories of hypnosis. Written by eminent scholars and researchers, this uniquely authoritative resource also provides a wealth of information about the history of hypnosis, clinical and research perspectives on hypnosis, and the strengths and weaknesses of empirical methods used to address crucial theoretical questions.
The streamlined organization of the volume facilitates the reader's ability to contrast and compare research findings and concepts across theories. In the introductory chapters, the editors describe hypnosis paradigms and schools of thought, including major points of convergence and divergence, as well as a broad vista of different perspectives on the history of hypnosis. The theoretical chapters that follow present definitive statements by an international array of eminent scholars who are at the forefront of conceptual advances in the realms of clinical and experimental hypnosis. Their contributions, written in lively first-person narratives, explore current thinking about hypnosis and represent important clinical and research traditions that extend beyond the territory of hypnosis to mainstream psychology.
Providing a thorough discussion of hypnotic phenomena, the book tackles tough questions such as whether hypnosis evokes an altered state of consciousness; whether hypnotic behavior is involuntary; whether hypnotizability is stable, trait-like, andmodifiable; and whether hypnotic and non-hypnotic behavior can be distinguished in meaningful ways. The diversity of viewpoints, including competitive ones, illuminates the debates which have expanded the frontiers of knowledge about hypnosis. In the concluding section, the editors compare and contrast these theories, discuss pertinent research issues, and lay out an agenda for future research.
Given its stellar list of contributors and the unique niche it occupies as the first authoritative survey of its kind, THEORIES OF HYPNOSIS is of value to anyone interested in the topic. The editors' ten years of experience teaching hypnosis to psychology and medical students has resulted in a book with enormous appeal to students and instructors, as well as clinicians and researchers. A wide variety of professionals--academics, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, dentists--will find it an authoritative introduction and invaluable reference to this still-growing, ever-fascinating field.