RECOMMENDED READING

There are thousands of books on hypnosis and hypnotherapy and hundreds more are published each year. Only a few of these are the result of original thinking and destined to turn into classics. Here is my shortlist of the most thought provoking and influential books in the area.

 

Hypnotherapy

Wolinsky, Stephen. (1991). Trances people live. Falls Village, CT: The Bramble Company. ISBN 0-9626184-2-X.

 

Hypnotic Inductions

Gafner, George and Sonja Benson. (2000). Handbook of hypnotic inductions. New York: W.W. Norton. ISBN 0-393-70324-X.

 

Metaphor Therapy

Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (2003). Metaphors we live by. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-46801-1.

 

Lankton, S . & Lankton, C. (1983). The answer within: a clinical framework of Ericksonian hypnotherapy. New York: Brunner/Mazel. ISBN 0-87630-320-3.

 

Lawley, J. & Tompkins, P. (2000). Metaphors in mind: transformation through symbolic modelling. London: The Developing Company Press. ISBN 0-95387-510-5.

 

Goal Setting

McKenna, Paul. (2004). Change your life in seven days. London: Bantam Press. ISBN 0-593-05055-X.

 

Seligman, Martin. (1991). Learned Optimism. New York: Alfred Knopf. ISBN 0-394-579125-1.