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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Getting to the Root, 5 Sep 2002
I bought *Mind Probe- Hypnosis* 15 years ago. It's underlined, highlighted, encircled,and all of the blank pages are crammed with my notes on what's so very important about this book. Hypnosis is a tool and like any other tool its usefulness depends upon the person weilding it. This isn't a book about how to hypnotize folks, it's about how to ask questions once you've gotten your client in a trance state; it's about how to weild the tool. The therapeutic relationship is traditionally weighted in favor of the therapist as being the wise one, the one with the answers. Irene shows us that the subject, or client, actually is the one with all the knowledge about themselves. We therapists just need to provide them with a way of reviewing their own Inner Wisdom. "The subconscious mind knows the nature, the cause and the remedy for all problems." (Pg 165) And Irene Hickman's Non-Directive Hypnotherapy is the most direct, least suggestive, and most gentle technique I've yet found to help my clients. In asking your client to go to the root of the presenting problem (the initial causative event)you avoid unnecessary memory excursions into related areas. Irene did not ask her clients to go back to past lives, they did this themselves in moving "back through time to any event, experience or happening that caused or helped to cause their problem." The results make for fascinating reading, as real human stories with contiguous emotional relationships which span centuries are tales which touch our hearts and our minds. Irene has other techniques which she suggests as well, such as going over an event until the client feels they've used up all the emotion left there ("Tell the story until the fear goes away..."), basing further questions on the answers you've already received, allowing the client not to answer or to follow a suggestion ("...subjects appear to have a built-in protection that permits them to refuse..."), keeping them in the present ("What's happening now..."), as well as giving us transcripts of sessions as examples for how to conduct the session. She also discusses the importance of fantasy in therapy and suggests that the need to fantasize is lessened in the trance state when inhibitions are lowered. I met Irene in 1988 when she signed my copy of her book. I think she was startled to find it so well read, and reread, but it has been one of the most important books I've read in this field. I suggest it to anyone interested in hypnosis, past lives,and the subconscious.
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