Ericksonian Hypnosis: An Introduction

It needs a way of thinking. This book is written for practitioners who are tired of rigid protocols and are ready to work with clients as they actually show up: messy, idiosyncratic, and full of unused resources.

It shows you how to notice what the unconscious is already doing well, and then use that directly in your interventions.

Rather than piling on more techniques, the book refines the essentials: naturalistic trance, indirect suggestion, metaphor, utilisation, and permissive post‑hypnotic influence.

You learn how to build sessions that feel conversational on the surface and deeply targeted underneath, so your client’s everyday life becomes the real arena of change.

The tone is practical, precise, and unsentimental. You will not find inflated promises or mystical language here, only patterns you can recognise in the next person who sits in front of you – and a way of using what you know so that their mind does the rest.