Product reviews for Rapid Hypnotic Inductions

In Rapid Hypnotic Inductions, Gabor Filo, a practicing general dentist smoothly demonstrates 11 hypnotic inductions with ease and professional skill. The first 10 inductions are shown with one of two young women who, obviously, had given consent, knew what to expect, and had been hypnotized previously. The final demonstration in the series is actually a video clip of a clinical application in which Dr. Filo removes a dental filling from a patient in hypnotic trance, without anesthesia. Even more impressive, the patient was formerly dental phobic -” quite a testimonial to hypnotic dentistry.

The inductions on this DVD include a handshake induction, an “alert” induction, eye fixation, a pressure point induction, and a non-verbal induction. Some of the techniques may be new even to experienced practitioners. The Elman induction is the best I've seen. Throughout the DVD, Dr. Filo maintains excellent rapport, pacing, and voice quality. His demonstrates deepening, taking the subject to a “happy place,” catalepsy, suggestions of temperature changes in the hands, eye closure, temporary amnesia, and ideomotor signaling. After each induction, he requests feedback from each subject (they mostly said they felt relaxed), and briefly explains, to the camera, the origin of each induction and the theory behind it.

The DVD is 60 minutes in length. It comes attractively packaged with an enclosed paperback guide. Ample references are provided. The audio quality is a bit off, because of a near-constant, rather distracting hum in the background. Nevertheless, this DVD will prove useful for hypnotherapy practitioner training programs and for hypnotherapists looking for new methods to speed up their work.