Books like Experiencing Hypnosis by Milton H. Erickson

A complete transcript of Milton H. Erickson’s five‑day therapeutic seminar, offering insights into his hypnotic methods, use of subconscious communication, and transformative patient‑care techniques.

A verbatim transcript of Dr. Milton Erickson’s clinical hypnosis induction and techniques, paired with essays that bridge his therapeutic art and empirical psychology.

The February Man offers a complete, verbatim account of a dramatic Ericksonian hypnotherapy case, detailing age regression, automatic writing, and time distortion techniques used to treat a depressed woman with a traumatic water phobia.

Developing Ericksonian therapy, by Jeffrey K. Zeig, investigates the application of Ericksonian principles within psychotherapy, hypnotic practice, and psychoanalytic contexts, citing therapeutic congresses and research settings.

An exploration of Ericksonian psychotherapy, this book outlines the therapeutic use of hypnotic techniques in counseling, drawing upon recent conferences to discuss how hypnotic methods can enhance therapeutic outcomes.

Dr. Milton H. Erickson, the leading medical hypnotist, teaches strategies for sharpening the techniques of therapists across various schools of thought.

Despite their clinical utility, hypnotic phenomena are vastly underutilized by therapists in their work with clients. Whether this is due to uncertainty about how to use specific techniques constructively, or how to elicit particular phenomena, or anxiety about not being able to obtain a desired result, this volume will guide therapists toward higher levels of clinical expertise. By describing varied hypnotic phenomena and how they can be used as vehicles of intervention. The Handbook of Hypnotic Phenomena in Psychotherapy takes the therapist beyond fundamental applications of hypnosis toward a broader, more sophisticated, scope of practice. This immensely readable book addresses the selection, elicitation, and therapeutic use of more than a dozen hypnotic phenomena. It offers step-by-step instruction on eliciting such phenomena as age progression, hypnotic dreaming, anesthesia, negative and positive hallucination, hypermnesia, catalepsy, hypnotic deafness, among others. Moreover, the book includes precise instructions on how to use the phenomena manifested in trance to provide more focused, goal-oriented, and emotionally meaningful psychotherapy. . Numerous case examples vividly illustrate intervention with anxiety disorders, trauma and abuse, dissociative disorders, depression, marital and family problems, sports and creative performance, pain, psychotic symptomatology, and other conditions. The Handbook of Hypnotic Phenomena in Psychotherapy will be used by therapists as a valuable clinical resource to expand their conceptualization of hypnosis, and thus enable them to develop a wider repertoire of skills with which they can confidently treat clients.