Book and DVD Review

I ordered tis by internet on 11/10/09.....Hope i get the extra DVDs

"Hypnosis Happens" sounds great, so just put my order in. Bring it on!

I have been able to save up some of my pension this month and am now able to buy the DVD set called "Speed Trance" by J Cerbone and R Nongard.

Has anyone any advice for me regarding where I should buy it? What it should contain and if there is any "free" material I should be looking out for?
Many Thanks.

Checking back on previous posts I see that Bladerunner was thinking of selling his DVD set. Are those still for sale? Am i allowed to ask here?

PADDY O'GELLAR wrote:I have been able to save up some of my pension this month and am now able to buy the DVD set called "Speed Trance" by J Cerbone and R Nongard.

Has anyone any advice for me regarding where I should buy it? What it should contain and if there is any "free" material I should be looking out for?
Many Thanks.

Depends if you want to have a funny funny funny funny (ad nauseum) red pen.

I'd spend the cash on early Bandler and Grinder books personally.

Kev

I think I reviewed Speed Trance in the reviews section. It has some great inductions in, notably the Butterfly.

Nongard and Cerbonne also sell other products on other aspects of the art.

Anthony

David Calof has been mentioned a handful of times on this forum but I don't think Hypnotic Techniques has been reviewed here (apologies if it has already).

It was originally a set of 6 audio cassettes but is currently available as a CD or MP3 download. At US$80 it isn't cheap, but I think it is fantastic.

I started listening to this when I was very new to hypnotism and really liked the seminar style of the sessions. I also really like his accent. At one point I had the entire set on my 6-CD changer in my car and and spent about two months listening to it over and over again (driving about 400 miles a week at that point). I can't say I've ever got bored of it; like many good things, there is always more to discover the more you look. (I could practically quote it by the end of that particular job!)

He was a student of Erickson and, I believe, was one of Bandler and Grinder's 'inner circle' at the beginning of NLP. Grinder has been quoted saying nice things about him. He teaches permissive and direct hypnotism, flexible induction and therapy techniques plus a number of cool patterns and metaphors that he suggests can be used in self hypnotism.

There is so much to it that I can't think of which parts to emphasise. It's up there with Patterns 1 in my opinion and it is the source of the eyes-open card drop routine that I've been rolling out for years and James Tripp recently wrote up and developed. Lots of left hand, right hand, adult you, child you, left brain, right brain, conscious, unconscious dissociative patter and explanations.

He sounds like a great guy, very friendly and so hypnotic. Totally recommended.

AchievingExcellence.com appears to be the official supplier.

Kev

Now this should be regarded as a classic. I've only recently started researching Estabrooks and didn't realise he had written a book. Estabrooks was a (probably 'the') psychologist involved in the US DOD MK Ultra project. His interest was hypnotism for use in crime and warfare.

His book, Hypnotism, is aimed at the layman and provides a summary of the scientific views on hypnotism as seen in the 40s and 50s (I have the second edition which appears to have been updated from the first edition). It also provides a platform for him to discuss how hypnotism works and how it could be (and has been in his view) applied to crime and warfare.

Due to it being aimed at the layman, this book does not include details or scripts, although any decent hypnotist would be able to take what is here and recreate the phenomena he discusses. His approach to induction and deepening mirrors our approach - test, test, test. His stated beliefs on the nature of hypnotism sound echos of the Human Givens model - he recognised the importance of emotion in psychology and hypnotism and also that the conscious/unconscious model is unscientific but useful.

I'll definitely be rereading it, but not before I've made Ant read it. It seems that Estabrooks was a really interesting and competent hypnotist.

Kev

Got Andre Weitzenhoffer's THE PRACTICE OF HYPNOTISM (the 2-volume set) for X-Mas...I'm doing a bunch of reading right now (as per Ant's recommendation, Ronald Havens' HYPNOTHERAPY SCRIPTS, 2nd Ed., also re-reading Overdurf's TRAINING TRANCES, plus my notes from the coursework I've just done), but when I get around to it, I'll tackle the Weitzenhoffer stuff and give my impressions! Even if those impressions are "why can't academic/therapeutically-oriented hypnotists take the time and effort to write clearly and engagingly?"

Just got Rubin Battino and Thomas South's book ERICKSONIAN APPROACHES (2nd Ed.) in the mail...briefly skimming through it, it looks pretty damned good. The language is engaging and thoughtful, as opposed to dry/academic/sleep-inducing, and the forewords written by Ernest Rossi, Erickson's daughter, Roxanna Erickson-Klein and his (now-late) wife, Betty Alice Erickson, give this particular book a stamp of serious approval.

It's a damned expensive book, but based on my initial impressions, it might be up your alley if you want to delve further into Milton E's conversational hypnosis method! Hope this helps, cheers!

Lester

Makata wrote:Just got Rubin Battino and Thomas South's book ERICKSONIAN APPROACHES (2nd Ed.)

Cheers, looks good. Do you also have the CD? I'm wondering how much of the book is covered by the CD. I'd get around to listening to it quicker than I would reading a book.

Kev

kevsheldrake wrote:

Makata wrote:Just got Rubin Battino and Thomas South's book ERICKSONIAN APPROACHES (2nd Ed.)

Cheers, looks good. Do you also have the CD? I'm wondering how much of the book is covered by the CD. I'd get around to listening to it quicker than I would reading a book.

Kev

I didn't know that a CD exists! I'd expect it to be abridged, which isn't such a bad thing...this book is quite a hefty tome, almost a hypno grimoire, we're talking 598 pages here. Frankly, a CD audiobook version would be pretty damned useful!

Lester

Makata wrote:Frankly, a CD audiobook version would be pretty damned useful!

It's a tenner on amazon.co.uk or $20 on amazon.com. I'm going to buy it and I'll post a review when I've had a listen.

Kev

I've got this CD and it's a useful extra or "companion", rather than an audio version of the book. The CD has examples taken from the text and lets you hear all the sort of things that the written word can't convey so well (e.g. tone of voice, pace of speech, emphasis, length of pauses and so on). There's also an example of "incorrect delivery of trance induction" which is pretty funny - spot the mistakes, and there are plenty of them! How the guy did this without cracking up I just don't know.

Cheers. I'll be listening to it tomorrow when I drive down to London.

Kev