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Please find a selection of recommended books below, which are available for you to purchase.
For Therapists
The Clinical Hypnosis Textbook – Ursula James
If you are interested in how hypnosis works and would like to learn self-hypnosis, or if you are studying the subject, or if you already use it in your practice, this book and its companion CD is the essential guide. The skills taught in this volume include how to utilise hypnosis for personal use as well as in the professional setting, and incorporates highly portable communication skills as a basis for increasing the accuracy of diagnosis.
Hypnotherapy – Dave Elman
Although some of the analytical techniques are dated, this book remains an excellent resource for therapists and is highly regarded in its field.
Rapid Cognitive Therapy – Terrence Watts
Presents a brief psychotherapeutic approach to working with clients. Nearly all the techniques described in the book can be used as adjuncts to conventional behaviourist and analytical approaches to therapy, including NLP and Gestalt work.
Set Your Voice Free - Roger Love and Donna Frazier
For anyone who wants to turn his dreams of singing into reality, for anyone who is self-conscious about speaking or singing in public, for anyone who hates the sound of her own voice on the answering machines - SET YOUR VOICE FREE offers the solution. With innovative techniques and enjoyable exercises that have worked wonders with his professional clients, the internationally acclaimed vocal coach, Roger Love, demonstrates how to carry a tune, expand vocal range, and speak with ease, confidence, and effectiveness. The accompanying CD takes the reader step-by-step through essential breathing exercises and vocal routines.
General Interest
Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway – Susan Jeffers
A book of advice on how to cope with fear of various kinds of experience, such as public speaking, self-assertion, decision-making, intimacy, being alone, ageing, losing a loved one, and ending a relationship.
Warriors, Settlers and Nomads – Terrence Watts
"Warriors, Settlers & Nomads provides profound insights into yourself and others insights that will forever change the way you view yourself and everyone you meet. Terence Watts teaches you practical and immediately applicable life strategies that will make your life richer and filled with meaning. Give this book to someone you love and keep a copy for yourself. Your world is about to change!" – Kevin Hogan, Psy.D
The Secrets of Self Hypnosis – Adam Eason
“The Secrets of Self-Hypnosis" is a ground-breaking, practical, step-by-step guide to harnessing the power of your unconscious mind. Using a structured and unique methodology, this book shows you how absolutely anyone can enter hypnosis easily, how to be in control of the state of hypnosis, how to deepen your experience of it and deliver powerful changes or make updates to your life, all by yourself! In addition, the "Secrets of Self-Hypnosis" has a wide range of advanced techniques and strategies. You will learn how to: increase confidence, manage and overcome inertia, distort your perception of time, become a non-smoker, achieve and maintain your ideal weight, let go of pain, and much more. – Kevin Hogan, Psy.D”
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff – Richard Carlson
Got a stress case in your life? Of course you do: "Without question, many of us have mastered the neurotic art of spending much of our lives worrying about a variety of things all at once." Carlson's cheerful book aims to make us stop and smell--if not roses--whatever is sitting in front of our noses. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... offers 100 meditations designed to make you appreciate being alive, keep your emotions (especially anger and dissatisfaction) in proper perspective, and cherish other people as the unique miracles they are.
Special Interest
The Broken Mirror – Katharine A. Phillips
Dr. Phillips' book is a landmark in the recognition and treatment of imagined ugliness. This book. beautifully written, provides a great deal of hope for patients with body dysmorphic disorder and their family members and should help speed recovery for countless sufferers of this common, fascinating, and disabling illness."
Beyond Anger – Thomas J. Harbin
Free of fancy doctor talk and complicated theories, Beyond Anger talks to men in everyday language and provides a wealth of important resources. It is an invaluable guide for the many men struggling to come to terms with their inner battles and to take positive action, and for everyone who has an angry man in their life.
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook – Edmund J. Bourne
This is a revision of the best-selling classic. It provides step-by-step help for sufferers of anxiety and phobic disorders. This edition offers the latest treatment strategies for the whole range of these problems - panic disorder, agoraphobia, generalised anxiety disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorder - with revisions that include updated information on medications, mindfulness training, and health-related conditions that aggravate anxiety.