For practitioners
The working side of the site
The rest of this site explains hypnosis to the people who need it. This part is for the people who do it — scripts, technique notes and training, chosen by someone who sees clients rather than someone who sells courses.
Hypnosis scriptsA searchable directory of over a thousand scripts, grouped by presenting problem. Read one before you buy it.Training and Growth ZoneCourses for qualified therapists, and the membership that keeps the library and the CPD coming.
From the shelf 1
The one historical text here in full. Braid coined the word in 1843, then spent years regretting it — he thought neurypnology the better name, because what he was describing was not sleep.
Language patterns 19
The Milton model, one device per page. They are best learned as a set: each is doing the same job — loosening the listener's grip on the literal — by a different route.
- Ambiguity
- Cause and effect
- Comparative deletion
- Complex equivalence
- Conversational postulate
- Double binds
- Embedded commands
- Lost performative
- Mind reading
- Modal operators
- Nominalisations
- Ordinal numbers
- Presupposition
- Referential index
- Selectional restriction violation
- Tag questions
- Universal quantifiers
- Unspecified verbs
- Utilisation
Technique 9
What happens in the room: assessment, induction, and the phenomena you will meet.