Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, MD: Volume 1

"Not what I'd call hypnotic writing.
The subject is tackled in an adequate fashion, but it is done in a dry way, with no prose at all.
The pseudo-maths are not 100% convincing either.

Not very captivating, Grinder and Co could have done better I think."
~ Written on 2008-06-12

"Whilst I would recommend this book to some extent as being a very interesting and generally quite deep analysis of Milton Erickson's hypnotic techniques, particularly his use of language patterns it does have one major drawback. Bandler and Grinder set themselves the task of modeling and interpreting Erickson's work only to produce a work that needs interpreting in itself. Their use of so many arcane and quite unnatural transformational linguistic terms does little or nothing to clarify Erickson's techniques for the average reader. This may have been some kind of intellectual vanity or maybe they were so caught up in the world of transformational linguistics at the time that they didn't realise the damage they would be doing to generations of inquirers into Erickson's techniques for years to come. We are treated to such wonderful terms as transderivational searches, lesser included structures, selectional restriction violations and counterfactual conditional clauses....One cannot help but wonder if this is this really supposed to clarify Erickson's technique. In my opinion William O'Hanlon makes a much better job of the task of translating Erickson and his patterns in "Solution Oriented Hypnosis" and "Taproots". Most of the same patterns are detected without the need to resort to the unnecessarily confusing linguistic terminology. "
~ Written on 2008-03-08

"This is an awesome book, must read for anyone refining communication. Deals primarily with thereuptic use of techniques but can be carried over into any area of daily life. chk it out. if you are interested in NLP And drop me an email incase u wanna know more/u are from India at obmjo@iname.com. I'm Arjun."
~ Written on 1999-12-01