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  1. Unlimited Power
    Anthony Robbins
  2. Using Your Brain--For a Change
    Richard Bandler
  3. Frogs into Princes: Neuro Linguistic Programming
    Richard Bandler & John Grinder
  4. Reframing
    Bandler & Grinder
  5. Solutions: Practical and Effective...
    Leslie Cameron-Bandler
  6. Trance-Formations: Neuro-Linguistic...
    B & G
  7. Patterns of hypnotic technique of Milton H. Erickson, M.D.: Vol. 1.
    B & G
  8. Monsters and Magical Sticks or There's...
    A great book by Steven Heller
  9. Healing in Hypnosis: The Seminars...
    Erickson
  10. Hypnotic Realities: The Induction...
    Erickson/Rossi
  11. Hypnotherapy, an Exploratory Casebook
    Erickson/Rossi
  12. Experiencing Hypnosis
    Erickson/Rossi
  13. Taproots
    O'Hanlon

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There is an old joke that goes:
Q: "How many Ericksonian Hypnotists does it take to change a light bulb?"
A: "Seventeen... One to do the actual change work, and sixteen to argue as to how Milton would have done it."

Which is to say there is rarely any one "right way"?

In fact, there are many paths to the mastery of any skills. Take swimming, for example. One could learn to swim, without knowing the first thing about it, by diving head first into the deep and of a pool or a lake or off an ocean liner.

Not my recommendation.

Another way would be to go to an aquarium and try to model fish or dolphins. They are obviously highly skilled practitioners of the art, and if anybody knows how to do it, they certainly do. They make it look so easy!

Or you could take lessons from other people who have mastered the skill and have learned something about how to teach it. Perhaps they'd have you start out watching others demonstrate swimming while you stood on dry land. Then you could enter the shallow end of the pool, learn the basic strokes, get comfortable in the water, and develop skills one by one. Moving gradually into deeper and deeper water with confidence and ability.

It's not the only way. It's not necessarily the best way; it's just one way.

So this suggested syntax for reading is just that - a suggestion. Ericksonian Hypnotherapy can certainly be learned very well without reading these books in this order. After all, Milton Erickson did it.

This list begins with some basic NLP books that I find very useful in learning how to think about Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Then, starting with Trance-formations, we trance-ition into the Ericksonian approach. Although Monsters and Magical Sticks is neither NLP nor Ericksonian Hypnotherapy per se, I find it an incredibly valuable transition book. I highly recommend it.

Then, of course, the Erickson/Rossi oeuvre. I suggest you read at least a few of them before O'Hanlon's Taproots. This book was for me one of those "A-Ha!" books.

Second Level (No particular order)

  1. Milton H. Erickson: An American Healer, Betty Alice Erickson, M.S. and Bradford Keeney, Ph.D.
  2. Mind-Body Communication in Hypnosis, Rossi & Ryan
  3. My Voice Will Go With You, Sydney Rosen
  4. Therapeutic Metaphors, David Gordon
  5. Phoenix: Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H. Erickson, David Gordon
  6. Therapeutic Trances, Stephen Gilligan
  7. Uncommon Therapies, Jay Haley
  8. Milton H. Erickson, M.D.: Complete Works 1.0,New! CD-ROM.
  9. The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson (four volumes)
  10. Experiencing Erickson, Zeig
  11. Patterns II, Brandler & Grinder
  12. The Practical Application of Medical and Dental Hypnosis, Erickson, et al
  13. The Answer Within, C. & S. Lankton
  14. Trances People Live, Steven Wolinsky
  15. The Dark Side of the Inner Child, Stephen Wolinsky
  16. Hypnotherapy Scripts, Ronald Havens & Catherine Walters
  17. Solution-Oriented Hypnosis, William O'Hanlon & Michael Martin
  18. An Uncommon Casebook ,O'Hanlon & Hexum
  19. The Couple Who Became Each Other, David L. Calof

There are many other books, some better than others, all worth reading. This is a good place to start.

Links

If You have not already done so, you must check out these sites:

www.Ericksonian.info: articles and scripts on Ericksonian Hypnosis and Psychotherapy: www.Ericksonian.info

John Morgan Seminars: www.JohnMorganSeminars.com

John Morgan's delightful blog: www.grasshoppernotes.com

Robert Dilts: NLP University: www.nlpu.com

John Lavalle: Society of NLP & NLP Seminars Group International: www.purenlp.com

Dave Dobson: The man some call a living Erickson: www.otcc.com

Anthony Robbins: Robbins Research International: www.tonyrobbins.com

Richard Bandler: The one and only: www.RichardBandler.com

David Gordon and Graham Dawes: great work on Modeling: www.experiential-dynamics.org

American Board of Hypnotherapy: www.hypnosis.com

Jonathan Altfeld: www.altfeld.com

Nick Kemp: the creator of Human Alchemy (tm): www.human-alchemy.com

Nick Kemp and Tina Taylor's UK NLP institute: www.tranceformingnlp.com

Barbara Stepp: Excellence Quest in Chicago: www.excelquest.com

Andrew Austin: 23NLPeople www.23nlpeople.com

Jamie Smart: Salad Seminars Ltd: www.saladltd.co.uk

Charles Moore: www.generativenlp.com

Stever Robbins: www.nlp.org

Metamodels: a source for NLP, hypnosis, and Enneagram resources: www.metamodels.com

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