Product reviews for Healing Scripts

Healing Scripts is a highly accessible and practical guide to hypnotic techniques for the treatment of trauma and stress.

It assumes a good grounding in clinical hypnotherapy and its fundamental approaches and does not set out with the intention of giving a general overview of the subject.

Following a brief introduction it immediately gets down to practicalities, offering a series of succinctly presented hypnotic interventions for dealing with a range of symptoms relating to pain, stress and dissociation disorders.

Marlene Hunter keeps her general comments on each condition to a minimum and the bulk of her book is made up of annotated scripts.

These can be referenced very easily as they mostly take the form of outlines, offering a framework for therapists rather than a word-by-word description. This means they can be easily absorbed and then elaborated upon or personalised for specific clients.

The accompanying annotations provide advice, guidance and a simple rationale for the scripts.

Hunter, formerly a family physician, emphasises the need for expertise on the part of those using hypnosis with the trauma spectrum disorders.

However her no-nonsense, jargon-free manual will be particularly helpful to those practitioners who are new to clinical hypnotherapy.