Learning to be a hypnotist-- know any good resources?

[ShadowSabre]

I'd like to learn to hpnotize people, I've decided. (The world could use more hypnotists with strong ethics, I think.) Can anyone reccomend really good (preferably online) resources to get started? (I figure it's more efficent that Googling and hoping something good comes up.....

[Jack]

Don't know. But I can tell you things/people to search for, and books to buy/check out from the library if possible.

Elman induction
Confusion induction
Pattern Interrupt
Leverage induction
Progressive Relaxation Induction
Reframing(context reframing, and content reframing, as well as the reframing model of NLP)
Meta Model
Milton Model
Leslie Lecron
Dave Elman
Milton H. Erickson
Indirect hypnosis
Covert hypnosis(same as Indirect)
Pacing and Leading
Mirroring
Cross-mirroring
Embedded commands(should come up under Milton Model)


Books
By Richard Bandler and John Grinder:
The Structure of Magic v1&2
The Patterns of Milton H Erickson v1&2
Reframing
Using your Brain for a Change
Trance-formations

By others:
NLP v1
Look into my eyes
Training Trances
Hypnotherapy by Dave Elman
Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

That's more than enough to get you rolling on your own. Have fun storming the castle.

Jack

[Blink]

You might also want to look at the NLP source material, that is, the work of Gregory Bateson, Virginia Satir and Milton Erickson. Of the three, the last will have the most direct connections to hypnosis (though Satir's work seems to have made some direct contributions to NLP as well).

There is a four-volume set of collected works by Milton Erickson that is available periodically. You can either buy a CD-ROM relatively inexpensively, buy the books at a premium, or borrow 'em via interlibrary loan (as I did) for little or nothing.

Many of the hypnotic techniques (other than NLP) Jack mentions are described in The Encyclopedia of Sage Hypnotism by Ormond McGill. He presents a long catalog of inductions that can be very useful and very reassuring until you've finished the reading list and started doing your own, covert, Ericksonian conversational inductions.

Good luck.

-- Blink
...and keep reading.

[getpumped87]

I'd like to learn to hpnotize people, I've decided. (The world could use more hypnotists with strong ethics...

no, really..... lol

[Blink]

I'd like to learn to hpnotize people, I've decided. (The world could use more hypnotists with strong ethics...

no, really..... lol

Note that he didn't say "good" or "bad," just "strong." :)

-- Blink

[Luperci]

I use inductions from time to time with some friends of mine that want to do things such as banish pain temporarily and the like that I have had great success with. I tend to use guided imagry to take them into a state where they are open to suggestions.

One of my favorites is the old chaff on the wind techniques.