Book by Lynda Hudson, Crown House Publishing
Wow. What a rich compilation of scripts for both beginners and more experienced professional.
Lynda Hudson provides a valuable resource that it deserves to be the classic guide for hypnotherapist who wonder what to say to help a client challenged with e.g. tics, illness, maternity, unwanted habits, business concerns, social unrest, Sport performance and/or travel toilet phobia, those are just some of the topics that the author treats so adroitly.
Unlike the previous script books by Roger Allen contains this text comments by the author on the right side of the script pages. [Added so much better than a similar effort by me many years ago in my community organization action guide for McGill University].
Hudsons breadth of knowledge of so many issues facing clients seeking hypnotherapy is nothing short of astounding. Regardless of the subject, she gives clear and compassionate formulation that can be adapted to specific persons and their conditions.
Thus manage script for a client who wishes to change the way he or she behaves in a business setting, delegate, public speaking, self-confidence and procrastination.
Hypnotherapists need to ad lib. We need colloquially known as "the gift of gab." And these scripts questions, ideas and tips to inform such eloquence. The author also includes breathing techniques, inductions and "conversion" procedures.
The focus is always on the client and his or her inner strength. This beautiful features of Hudson is somewhat diluted by her large reliance on embedded commands. This, like much else in the book, I believe, an NLP techniques and I wonder if its effectiveness.
To emphasize certain words or phrases really have such a positive impact on a client? After all, admitted himself that "good Hudson will listen and report is crucial. So is, of course, trust and respect and wholehearted, mutual belief in the method, along with skill and compassion for therapist. "
This suggests that as a hypnotherapist is and how she conducts herself is more influential than which particular words that she uses. Hudson, however, the book five pages with "Hypnotic language". It seems to be what we have come to be regarded as Ericksonian patter. Again, it seems to me that the therapist intent and real concerns count for much more than certain words and phrases. Coming from the mouth of an apathetic, indifferent or dishonest therapist surely such "hypnotic" words would repeat hollowly to client? (Much like NLP manipulative technique to "reflect" the client's posture and movements).
Hudson contains information about NLP "rewind" technology (show an activity as if it were a film running back.) I can only assume that the author often has used this procedure. Because there is no way I can imagine a reverse movie in my head.
But there is no questioning of Lynda Hudson sincerity. We can learn so much from her book: not only tips and even whole texts that help clients but how to imitate her modesty, we are constantly striving mastering her obvious skills.
Oddly, this book lacks an index. If you would like to find a script for agoraphobia, for example, you have to wade through all the phobia pages. In the same way with the otherwise excellent scripts for sexual dysfunction if you are interested in to help a woman seeking to overcome her inhibitions about climaxing.
I am sure Hudson is very aware of cultural differences and the need to adapt his scripts depending on geographical background and upbringing of the client, but without an index I couldn't easily find the tutorial.
Hmm. Perhaps is the lack of an index, not that bad because for search on a particular topic, the reader learns enormously along the way.
An excellent section on how to sleep well is especially relevant, given the comprehensive fatigue of stressed-out, sleep-deprived commuters in North America and United Kingdom
The British, however, seems to us with another important effective use of hypnosis because, writes Hudson, "in some [U.K.] Hospital hypnotherapy has become the treatment of choice for IBS. "
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