Customer Reviews:
 Trances People Live December 1, 2003
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
Steven Wolinsky provides an alternative approach to hypnotherapy. This is not an easy book and will appeal more to those with a reasonable understanding of trance states and their potential. However, for the determined, this book provides a rare insight into trance phenomena and strategies for de-trancing the individual. The idea that individuals "do their problem" in trance, explains the uncontrolable aspect of behaviour that many people express in relation to their problems. To be able to take a sideways view of this explanation may well help people to turn their problem into a resource, or not. Whichever it is, only determined obtuseness will prevent learning from the reading of this book.
Trance isn't what you thought it was August 20, 2003
Andy Smith (Manchester, United Kingdom)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
Building on Erickson's concept of the 'everyday trance', Wolinsky shows how emotional problems and psychosomatic symptoms can be regarded as manifestations of different trance phenomena - amnesia, age regression, and so on. These are supposed to be characteristic of deep trance, but in fact happen to all of us in one form or another in everyday life. Therapy then becomes the process of 'dehypnotising' the client from their 'problem trance'. Radical, thought-provoking, and useful.
A must for all therapists and patients alike! September 18, 2000
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a book of insights for the therapist and the layman alike. Stephen Wolinsky's writing is clear, consistant and friendly.
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