I'm quite impressed by most of this book, outside of the Christian Science related introduction as well as the Epilogue, neither of which were written by Dr Heller who has since passed away.

I'm not sure if I like it enough to recommend it to the specific classes when I teach this because of the intros, but this is a much better written book than many of the others I have read lately. It is much more Ericksonian style hypnosis by someone with a PhD in clinical psychology.

I appreciate how everything is described in enough detail to make it informative and the story lengths are just right. Definitely one (despite the Christian Science introduction) to consider having on your bookshelf. ( )

Irreverent book whose central thesis – that we hypnotize ourselves and each other all the time – is less revelatory than Heller seems to imagine; and to call it hypnosis muddies the waters of NLP, hypnosis and the casual self-deception the mind engages in every day. A fun and sometimes enlightening read, though, with eye-opening case histories and documented hypnotherapy sessions. Unfortunately it's in severe need of an edit: my copy has misspellings, missing words, many typos, and a distracting and chronic over-reliance on certain stylistic tics. ( )