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Training Trances: Multi-Level Communication in Therapy and Training | 
| Authors: John Overdurf, Julie Silverthorn
Publisher: Metamorphous Press
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Rating:  24 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3rd
Pages: 264
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1555520693
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.89162
EAN: 9781555520694
ASIN: 1555520693
Publication Date: November 1995
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As is July 1, 2008
Sean Hammond (UK)
I have had this book for a few years and forgot to leave a comment.
All I can say is the cover says it all.
Worth every penny (Cent), a must have. SPH UK
 MARVELLOUS BOOK! January 27, 2008
J. Hunter-Yetton (washington)
This is one of the best books i have bought on Hypnosis ever! It develops a broad understanding of trance in its most useful state and through transcripts, examples, exercises and theory brings the reader to an accomplished understanding of trance and communication. This book is a clear, easy to follow text which would be useful to any hypnotherapist or Psychologist!. This is an original book and you wont' find the information in any other.. so...BUY IT _ BUY IT _ BUY IT - It's too wonderful to miss!
 Simply not professional level: a beginners primer January 26, 2008
Eggcrate (New York City)
"A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world"
- Freud
Ericksonian Hypnosis requires a very deep understanding of psychodynamics and intrapsychic processes. It isn't a quickie solution, not was it ever intended to be. The Erickson Foundation is rightly protective of the quality of Erickson's extensive legacy. For darned good reasons, too. Erickson himself was formed through psychic trials of the greatest personal challenge and he was trained through long and direct experience with highly disturbed patients. Jay Haley, Ernest Rossi, Stephen Gilligan and others have made every effort to present the qualitative framework necessary to grasp, if only barely, the foundational planes that support the Ericksonian Method... no easy thing to get at either, as it was said, perhaps somewhat naively, that Erickson had no theory of personality. Exposure to transcrips and close writings suggest that this may be erroneous, he seemed to have a profound tacit theory of personality, one might say, to paraphase Buckminster Fuller, that "personality is a verb"... a kind of shifting dynamic verb structure that lived in multiple relationships with the environment (or to use that inscrutably weird term "the object")... some of that environment being internal and some being external...
All that said, Training Trances does touch here and there on an Ericksonian point, "you can be in a light trance and a deep trance simultaneously", without, of course, giving any insight into what that might mean or what one would do with that bit of information...
The interplay between the two authors (which we assume is an edited down verbatim transcript of one or more of their seminars, with added commentary) almost reads like television for precocious children.
Compared to Haley's series of "Erickson Unplugged" where Erickson fuses psychodynamic purpose with trance, whether with individuals, families, or children... what's the point ? Induce arm catalepsy ? Peachy.
Training Trances might be appropriate for an introductory breezy sense of what hypnosis is about phenomenologically... not at all for serious therapeutic concerns.
"Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity"
-Freud
Wonderful, Powerful, Alive January 12, 2008
George Guarino (Albany, New York, USA)
Being a clinical hypnotist is a wonderful, exciting, rewarding profession. This book helps make it so. Reading "Training Trances" over and over numerous times I am in awe of John and Julie and their keen construction of a wonderful book/manual to instruct those interested in working with trance to provide profound assistance to clients. The exercises are precise, the trance-writing is a piece of art, and the overall learnings that one can receive from experiencing this book are profound. Read it once and let it just wash over you. Read it a second time and pick out how you want to use the exercises. Read it a third time to remind yourself that you will be able to access your resources when you need them to assist your clients in their walk toward success. Oh yeah, and it's a fun read. A must for any and all passionate hypnotists.
Excellent Trancy work May 30, 2007
Richard Griffiths (Bristol UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I drifted off too far a few times...usually towards the end of induction scripts.
This works really well, and is a must have for anyone into indirect hypnosis. If you just want to play a little, it's great to read for it's own sake, though I warn you, you'll probably go further :-)
For the practicing hypnotherapist, this is a great demonstration/experience book and of course would be nicely complemented by both Heller's Monsters and Magical Sticks book, Ericksonian Approaches and perhaps for contrast Elmans' work. I like having this book with me along with Ledochowski's Deep Trance Training manual...and yes it IS a manual, literally.
Highly enjoyable, I hope I get to train with the authors in the future.
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