We offer a large range of hypnosis video tapes and some DVD's for NYSEPH members and students. You will be able to see how practitioners of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy incorporate Erickson's hypnotic techniques into their own therapeutic work. In order to borrow a tape, you need to have paid your membership dues since September, 2009 or be a current NYSEPH student.

To borrow tapes, please call Judith Grosz at 212-794-0143. A $100 deposit made out to NYSEPH is required to borrow tapes from the library. The tapes must be returned within 4 weeks. After that time, there is a late charge of $1 per day.

The reviews seen below have been written by NYSEPH students.

Barber, Joseph: Utilizing Hypnosis in Psychotherapy
A man talks about wanting to write his dissertation without struggle—he has been procrastinating. He has a fear of responsibility and boredom. Barber asks many relevant questions: “What’s happening now?” “I wonder what you are thinking right now.” In trance, he leads the client into the woods where there are 2 paths which divide. He talks about the different experiences the client will have, creates curiosity as well as a double-bind to help the client move forward
Barber, Joseph: Hypnotic Alteration of Pain Perception
Highly recommended. Illustrates the power of the mind to create a change in how one feels. Rates both the level of pain as well as how much the pain is bothersome. Utilizes the discomfort as part of the induction. Posthypnotic suggestion for amnesia of the work done in the trance.
Erickson, Milton: The Reverse Set in Hypnotic Induction
Erickson, Milton: Explorer in Hypnosis and Therapy (bio)
Gilligan, Stephen: Accessing Unconscious Processes
Granat, Jay: Surviving in a Managed Care Environment
Lustig, Herbert: The Artistry of Milton Erickson (Monde)
Lustig, Herbert: The Primer of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy
A teaching tape using parts of sessions from both Erickson and his own work
Moore, Marion: The Constructive Use of Hypnotic Phenomena
Pearson, Robert: Ericksonian Induction Strategies
Tape is rated—fair
Rosen, Sidney: A Quick Utilization Approach to Hypnotic Inductions
Rosen, Sidney: The Panic Chair
Rossi, Ernest-: A Fail-Safe Double-Bind Approach to Hypnotic Inductions
Asking questions is an important way to get a person to be inwardly focused. Rossi listens and watches carefully. He utilizes whatever he sees and hears. When the client talks about resistance, he works with it. With one client, he does a double-bind with her by having her hold her hands a small distance apart and having her feel the magnetic force between them. He says if the unconscious want to say YES, the hands will come together, if NO, they will separate. If the hands do not move, he says: “How wonderful that the hands aren’t moving. Are those hands still, so you can go more deeply into the unconscious?”
Rossi, Ernest: A Sensitive, Fail-Safe Approach to Hypnosis
Thompson, Kay: Conversational Introduction to Trance
The VHS quality is not good--the tape breaks up in one part for 30 seconds.  However, the tape is interesting and recommended. Kay does a conversational induction with someone she already knows. She tells a story about how a tree grows in the woods and we can see the subject clearly go into trance with eyes open, then closed, then open just from listening to the story.  The client is a hypnotist himself and this is particularly interesting.  Kay's story is general and there is very little that is specific to the client, but at the end of the session he comments on the fact that "she knows him so well" based on the induction.  He is not aware that she is being general and finds the induction to be therapeutic. Kay has a powerful presence and excellent delivery.
Zeig, Jeffrey: Ericksonian Based Therapy for Weight Control

The following selections are also available as DVD's.

Barber, Joseph: Posthypnotic Suggestion: Capitalizing On Our Imagination.
Edgette: Sports and Performance Therapy
Erickson, Betty Alice: Trances-Healing and Helping, Changing and Creating
Gilligan, Stephen: The Courage to Love: A Demonstration of Self-Relation Therapy.
A woman remarries in her 50’s after her first husband has died. The second husband is not the man anyone in her family (esp. her mother) wanted her to marry. Gilligan works to connect the little girl part of the client with the adult part of her. He uses an interesting metaphor about Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan to talk about the vibrational quality of the inner child
Greenleaf, Eric: Dreams: Strolling the Royal Road.
Interesting video. Greenleaf used the Jungian technique of “active imagination” to take the patient deeper into the dream experientially. The therapist utilized the information the patient presented and made use of the patient’s resources to deal with the issue presented in the dream
Imaginative Medicine—Hypnosis in Pediatric Practice
Kershaw, Carol: Treating Chronic Illness with Hypnosis.
Kershaw induces a healing trance with a woman who desired help with chronic neck, spine and leg pain.  The initial induction utilizes the client's past experiences of trance and an early learning set which is used as a metaphor for unconscious involvement in self-healing.  A post-hypnotic suggestion includes a continuation of healing.  Kershaw's dialogue with the audience after the session clarifies her choices of metaphors and the reasons for the absence of specific mention of pain during the trance.  The client stated that the more general focus on mastery, which was her own goal, was helpful.
Lankton, Stephen: Change for Profound Work in a Single Session.
Lankton’s style is playful. He works with a high functioning woman who is unable to ask for support or help. He uses metaphors and takes her into a very relaxed state. He has her push this feeling of relaxation out into her future from a central core.
Rossi, Ernest: Symptom Path to Enlightenment.
Thompson, Kay: Pain Control and Healing Enhancement Using Hypnosis.
Yapko, Michael: Hypnosis and Exploring Options-Teaching Session.
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