Covert Hypnosis: An Operator's Manual by Kevin Hogan
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Book Reviews of Covert Hypnosis: An Operator's Manual
Book Review: Great book for learning invaluable communication skills!
Summary: 4 Stars
Despite the title, this book is about understanding how to help people envision your ideas and thoughts. There are many good concrete examples that illustrate methods for guiding conversations in a positive productive way for both parties. Implementing the lessons taught in this book has improved my business and personal relationships. I highly recommend it to anyone that wants to build his "people skills."Book Review: A good book for therapists with difficult clients
Summary: 3 Stars
Some people work readily with cognitive behavioral therapy. Some people are happy to try hypnosis. And some people have the troubles they have because they work very hard to hang onto the psychological mindsets that bring them about. Covert hypnosis has many good ideas for using language to heighten suggestibility and covertly implant suggestions that would not be accepted if presented overtly. On the whole, this looks like a method of turning a conversation into a long-form induction, except that there isn't an explicitly denoted conversion to hypnosis.
I am a certified hypnotist, but I'm a customer service agent by trade. I purchased this manual after reading the author's Psychology of Persuasion. I had hoped this would offer a more in-depth look at the communication strategies discussed in that book, and have not found this manual as helpful in that regard. If you are a therapist or work with people in other settings where wide-ranging, extended conversation is a given, this manual offers lots of good suggestions for guiding the conversation, all the way to planting suggestions for those resistant to change in a therapeutic setting. But if you're in sales, customer service or another profession where shorter interactions are the rule, I'd recommend the Psychology of Persuasion instead.
Book Review: A great book for those who don't know the basics yet
Summary: 3 Stars
This is a great book for a newbie - if you have not yet started, but want to - then this is a good starting place. If you don't achieve what you want in the first 90 days, give it 6 months to try again. It is very basic which is what some people need.
One related book that is very powerful if you read it with a different eye is: How to make a Manchurian Candidate: the Soviet Art of Brainwashing: A synthesis of the Soviet Textbook on Psychopolitics
Be careful!
Book Review: The book had to be renamed: how to become a succesful salespersons
Summary: 2 Stars
I have read most of the book. I won't say that it is useless, but that it is rather disapointing. NLP is a very powerful set of practices for influencing other people. The name of the book is the one thing the author did that succeeded in convincing me to buy this book. The book is mainly about how to become a successful salesperson, almost nothing about other practices of covert hypnosis. Thus the name of the book suggests a wider scope. Throughout the book, the author seem to plant the messages "buy my other stuff" and "use my knowlege", and he seems to do it in a very ineffective way. If at least he was able to use covert hypnosis more effectively for that, the way Bandler and Grider (the original developers of NLP) did, then I would be tempted to believe I can learn a lot more from him.
Yet, the book is not useless. Some of the things written in this book are deep understanding of the selling business.
Book Review: Caveat emptor
Summary: 2 Stars
Not at all what I expected. This is more of a motivation tool for high-pressure sales people, Jehovah's Witnesses, and anyone who does direct or multi-level marketing. Those truly interested in hypnosis will only find this marginally interesting. Also, the book is poorly constructed, riddled with typos and grammatical errors. Not this author's best hour, if he's had one yet