Recommended Books

Steven Heller is sadly no longer with us, and it says much for this beautiful book that by the end of it I felt the loss of someone I'd never met. Incredibly prescient, this book is written so wittily and so familiarly that the pages flow by. Based around his view that 'there's no such thing as hypnosis' - because everything is hypnosis it leaves an impression on my work that's never left. Thank goodness.

This is the book that began a completely new direction for me as a therapist. I think it contains the basis for a revolution in therapy by getting us to recognise that trance states are just part of normal brain functioning; the means by which the brain creates our perception of reality - including our problems and limitations. 'A must read' is an overused phrase, but this really is.