Reddit reviews My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson
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People use "brain washing" too freely.
My opinion is, people are too ashamed and scared to admit their own weaknesses.
Let me give you an example;
Bill Clinton. People love the guy. But here's the thing, a ton of people very much dislike his politics.
I forget the exact quote, but one of those people said, "You hate Bill Clinton before you meet him and after he leaves, but while he's there talking to you, you like the guy."
People can blame Scientology all they like, but I think it's exactly what the name sounds like; it's the religion of science. And it uses the science that everyone claims isn't a science, psychology.
Having a degree in psychology, and having had more people than I can count tell me I "should have picked a real degree," I can't help but feel a guilty twinge of happiness when I see people say things like "Scientology brainwashes people!"
No; they're using psychological principles to make you not only accept and like any horse poo they spout, but they change your beliefs. Brain wash? Pfft. They're doing what Bill Clinton does in his interviews.
It actually helps them that you claim they're brainwashing people, because it keeps people from learning the science behind what they're really doing (which just so happens to be my "worthless" degree). Words like brainwashing might as well be the modern day word for "magic," because 99% of people don't actually know what that means, or how people really change other people's minds. Another modern-magical word is "hypnosis." Everyone knows the word, and people are like "Oooo, magic..." but again, 99% of people don't know what it is or how it works. There are literal "magic shows" that have hypnotists, and people call things like that "mental magic."
Calling it brain washing is basically telling 99% of people, "It's not your fault. You couldn't help it. They used magic on you!" And for the people saying they were brainwashed? You notice how they never give real details about what the people actually did to them to "make" them want it? They might as well be saying "They used voodoo on me! I couldn't stop myself!"
Well you can stop yourself, it wasn't "brainwashing," and people want what Scientology has to offer because they're using science to make people want it (like Bill Clinton can control an interview on a supposedly Republican television network, and manage to look good, and make it look like everyone there loves him and he's in control). Even if they crash and burn as a religion, which I doubt, they'll make a ton of money in marketing.
If you're interested in the science, I'd recommend:
http://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Master-Personal-Magnetism-ebook/dp/B005GSZZ24/
and
http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Robert-Cialdini/dp/006124189X/
and
http://www.amazon.com/My-Voice-Will-Go-You/dp/0393301354/
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http://www.amazon.com/Sleights-Mind-neuroscience-reveals-brains-ebook/dp/B003ZDNZYM/
Why thank you!
The issue is there are loads of super in depth clinical books (which deal with stuff you will never need to know in this line of work) or the utter rubbish stuff that says it can make your boobs turn into alpacas or whatever. However, once you filter that there are lots of good books out there. Here are a few I suggest:
-The Art of Hypnosis: Mastering Basic Techniques
-Essentials Of Hypnosis (Basic Principles Into Practice)
Also the ASCH Bibliogrpahy has some good article links for you to check out.
And I should plug our very own /r/erotichypnosis while a load of it is pretty advanced it often has some great tips.
Also if there is a group near you go check them out, the people tend to be nice it lets you get personalized advice.
For the follow on, I don't self-hypnotize intentionally. However, I did recently realize how often I trance when doing stuff. When I study or present in front of people I tend to trance out and I recently spotted I do it when I am stressed. I guess its because I have been under so much my brain is just used to it and knows that a trance state is useful for my work and stress levels so just drops me into one as needed.
It is very real and I know a lot of people who use it to great effects, I have just never got into myself, however, that is just personal preference.
Lol.... This approach is also known as a parable, or simply telling a story... sorry but academia does tend to overthink things sometimes...
In all seriousness, if you are really interested in this type of approach, I'd highly suggest taking a look at some of Milton Erickson's work.
https://www.amazon.com/My-Voice-Will-Go-You/dp/0393301354
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
> Erickson's secret was his 'teaching tales', not old fairytales but anecdotes about his own family life or the cases of previous patients that carried with them special meaning for a person's problem. They usually involved an element of shock or surprise, and were designed to provoke an 'aha' moment that allowed a person to get outside the normal circularity of their thoughts. Instead of saying, 'I see what's wrong, this is what you should do' Erickson would let the person glean the message from the anecdote, as if they had figured it out on their own.
People are very quick to write off Erickson because he's known as a "hypnotherapist"... but you can pretty much ignore the "hypnotic" aspect and still get plenty of useful ideas by just looking at the different way he used stories in therapy.
Have you read Jay Rosen's book, "My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton Erickson"? Loved it.