This book is not a set of rigid techniques but is a guide to some elegantly simple approaches to hypnosis so that a reader can have an opportunity to see what might be helpful to explore, to adapt, to translate. It is a collection of practical, every day observations based on McNeilly's nearly 40 years of clinical experience and teaching. It evolved from his enchantment of Milton Erickson's approach and makes an otherwise overwhelmingly complex experience more available.

This book contains 13 papers, written from more than 30 years of McNeilly's experience as a clinician and teacher. He draws on a wide range of ethical and philosophical sources including Lao Tzu and Martin Heidegger and theoretical sources including Ericksonian principles, ontological coaching, and a variety of solution approaches. The topics include contextual, ethical and always practical issues that are a perennial concern for any serious therapist. Readers new to the solution approach and Milton Erickson's contributions will find an elegantly simple place to begin to explore from, while...