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About This Book
Most hypnosis training puts the hypnotist at the center. You hold the script. You lead the induction. You do something to the client and hope it lands.
Milton Erickson did something entirely different. After forty years of clinical practice, Dr. Richard Nongard has spent this book showing you exactly what that difference is and how to make it yours.
Excellence in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy is built around a single conviction Erickson held throughout his career: every client already has within them the resources to solve any problem they face. Your job is not to install those resources. Your job is to create the conditions in which the client can find them.
You will learn the ARE process, the three-principle framework of Absorb, Ratify, and Elicit that runs through every effective Ericksonian session. You will learn the language patterns that create change without resistance, the somatic approaches most hypnotists never discover, and the trance utilization principle that turns resistant clients into your most compelling success stories.
You will learn the February Man, the Crystal Ball across a dozen clinical applications, somatic hypnosis, and clinical approaches for ADHD, addiction, sleep disorders, and chronic pain. You will also leave with a complete self-hypnosis practice you can use in your own life every single day.
This is not a book of scripts. It is a book about becoming a different kind of practitioner. One who is genuinely present. One who uses whatever the client brings. One who trusts the person in the chair.
The forty years of practice behind every principle in this book is real. And the results, when you stop fighting your clients and start working with them, are real too.
There is no such thing as an unhypnotizable client. There are only clients you have not yet learned to meet.
This book will change that.
Excellence in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy A Topical Guide to What You Will Learn
The Foundation Who Milton Erickson was and why his approach changed everything What keeps good hypnotists from doing great work The eight principles that run through every effective session
The ARE Framework Absorb: capturing attention without resistance Ratify: confirming what the client is already experiencing Elicit: drawing on the client’s own inner resources
The Language of Influence Assertions, mind reading, and trans-derivational search Double binds, the yes set, and modal operators Paradoxical intervention and the not-hypnosis frame
Reading the Body What trance looks like from the outside Ideomotor responses and unconscious communication Anchoring, mirroring, and kinesthetic suggestion
Trance Utilization Why there are no resistant clients Using skepticism, anxiety, and distraction as induction tools Future pacing and the mirror technique
The February Man Age regression and parts therapy Installing an inner figure for deep identity change Four sessions with Miss S
The Crystal Ball Visualization across a dozen clinical applications Dialogue with the future self The crystal ball as a daily self-hypnosis practice
Somatic Hypnosis When the body leads the way Bilateral tapping, sensory bypass repatterning, and postural intelligence Betty Erickson’s 5-4-3-2-1 grounding technique
Clinical Applications ADHD, bruxism, alcoholism, and sleep disorders Working with chronic pain and depression Knowing when to refer and when to proceed
Self-Hypnosis for Practitioners The mirror technique The index card method Erickson’s five-step recovery process
Putting It All Together How every principle connects in a single session What forty years of practice actually looks like Your next session starts here
