A very useful and practical guide. Due to space limitations we only publish book reviews in this newsletter when a book of exceptional merit comes to our attention. Since Hypnotic Language came highly recommended from our ex-students we have asked the LCCH Director of Studies, Peter Mabbutt, to review it for our readership. As Peter describes below, this could well be the book you have been waiting for. This statement, made at the beginning of Burton and Bodenhamer's new book, may seem a bit excessive.
Language lives at the very heart of hypnosis.
What Burton and Bodenhamer set out to demonstrate is exactly how the structure of hypnotic language invokes the more sophisticated capacities of the cortex, as they identify the very cognitive dimensions that allow hypnotic language to be effective, and those principles of perception that cause the perceiver to automatically enter a state of trance. The authors pose three key questions in the first section of the book. The result is an investigation that is as fascinating as it is rigorous. Chapters 2 and 3 prove to be particularly valuable. The second section of the book is the practical part, offering dozens of hypnotic language scripts with explanations of the cognitive principles at work.