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From: Ollie
Date: Tue Mar 11, 2003 2:42pm
Subject: Re: randomness...books to recommend?
Hi Alex,
I have Ormond McGill's book, which is good for hypnosis but bears
little relation to the approach that Derren takes. You'd be better
going for Hypnosis (Comprehensive Guide) by Tad James or
Solution-oriented Hypnosis by William O'Hanlon, as they cover the
Ericksonian language techniques that Derren uses.
Frog's into Princes is a good read and a good introduction to NLP.
Hope this is of some help :-)
Ollie
--- In a previous message *~*alex*~* wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> i only joined this group recently and have been trawling through a
> load of the earlier messages (takes a looong time, but an interesting
> read even at 2am! i love hearing everyone's ideas about DB's
> techniques:)
>
> ooh...and i did notice from the last programme when Derren was
> getting the person to think of the 7 of hearts, he made a heart shape
> with his hands on his chest quite a bit. i picked up on the bottle
> shapes he made too! (was so proud of myself for noticing that! but i
> doubt i'd have seen it if i was actually there. the detachment of
> television..plus we're watching his every movement extremely closely.
>
> Anyway, i'm thinking of buying a couple of good books on the subject
> (NLP, mentalism..i'm not quite sure what else!)
> From earlier posts people seem to like:
> Corinda '13 Steps to mentalism'
> Bandler 'Frogs into Princes'
> Ormond McGill's book on stage hypnotism
> Ian Rowland's book on Cold Reading.
> (I presume that Derren's Pure Effect book requires previous knowledge
> of magic/card tricks...so perhaps not good for me!)
>
> Can anyone suggest which of these are the best or any other books
> that would be a good place to start?? i'm a complete novice but i
> find this topic so fascinating!
>
> ~alex (girl! from my name most people presume i'm a bloke..)
