Recommended Hypnosis Books:

5. The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook – by Edmund J. Bourne
This book excels not only in explaining the cause and nature of anxiety disorders and phobias but also in describing treatments. Director of the Anxiety Treatment Center in Santa Rosa (California), Bourne emphasizes the cognitive-behavioral model of treatment but includes information on biopsychiatry, intense psychotherapy, and spirituality as additional treatment modalities. This is truly a “workbook,” with exercises designed to facilitate recovery, either through private use or in conjunction with professional therapy.

4. Hypnotherapy – by Dave Elman
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Westwood Publishing Company (June 1, 1984)

3. Self-Change Hypnosis – by Richard MacKenzie
The techniques that you will learn in Richard’s groundbreaking new book will both challenge and inspire you to achieve the truly impossible. One of his favorite quotes comes from a man called Henry Ford. It says “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.” He believes that if we change and challenge the things that we believe about ourselves, that we can ultimately change and take control of our own destinies.

2. Conversational Hypnosis: A Manual of Indirect Suggestion – by Carol Sommer
Carol Sommer is a licensed clinical counselor who has been teaching clinical hypnotherapy since 1984. She is a certified Hypnotherapist and Consultant with American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, and a certified trainer of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP). Carol is also a contributing author of The New Private Practice (W.W. Norton, 2001) as well as several research papers on hypnosis.

1. Covert Hypnosis: An Operator’s Manual – by Kevin L Hogan
Covert Hypnosis is the utilization of techniques and strategies to change the perception and behavior of others in a completely unconscious way. The optimal applications for covert hypnosis are in the fields of selling, advertising, marketing, relationships and of course, therapy.