Widely hailed as the leading text in the field, this book provides a rich and detailed introduction to the complex and fascinating world of clinical hypnosis. In this new 6th edition Michael invited Dr. Shawn Criswell to join him as a co-author. Released in 2025

Your quality of life is based on the choices that you make. Instead of anaylzing “why” someone makes the choices they make, this book focuses on “how” people choose and provides effective ways of making better quality decisions.

This book provides succinct pieces of sage advise for more advanced applications of clinical hypnosis. Valuable to the experienced clinician as well as those just beginning their practice.

This very first book on the subject demonstrates that hypnosis can be a viable and effective approach to the treatment of depression. Yapko explodes some of the many myths about hypnosis and depression replacing them with a compelling, well-rounded and productive template for treatment.

This book features chapter contributions by highly experienced and well-known experts on using hypnosis to treat specific forms of depression. Assessment and intervention strategies as well as sample transcripts of the use of hypnosis in therapy sessions can be found in each chapter.

This book focuses on the structuring and delivering of hypnotic interventions for the disorder of major depression. It makes substantial use of concepts and techniques from cognitive-behavioral and strategic approaches as a foundation.

In this popular book, Yapko argues cogently that depression is much more about our circumstances and perceptions than our neurochemistry. Consistent with his view that skills are far more helpful than pills, Yapko provides dozens of skill-building strategies to better cope with the challenges of life that can too easily become overwhelming and lead to depression.

Depression is the most common mood disorder in the world and the most researched mental health term on the Internet. People are bombarded with lots of information, too muc of which is incorrect or slanted to sell a particular product. In this book Yapko offers brief, succinct information and perspective to those suffering depression who simply want to understand what it’s about and what they need to do to overcome it.

Depressions effects reach into the interactions you have with others, rippling destructively through marriages, families, work environments, and communities like a viral contagion. Drugs can’t repair or protect your relationships from depression but the skills taught in this book can.

In this book Yapko carefully describes how the family can play a crucial role in the development of and recovery from depression. Parents introduce their children to various life experiences and in so doing inevitably reveal their own values, perspective and biases. Thus, children can “inherit” depression less from their parent’s genes and more from their parents’ attitudes and behaviors

In this single session intervention with a depressed man also suffering symptoms of PTSD, hypnosis is utilized to break the patterns of rumination and self criticism.

In this single session intervention hypnosis is utilized to help the client become ‘unstuck’ in her efforts to transition her career to include writing.

In this single session intervention the client is feeling insecure in his transition to his new profession as a therapist. Hypnosis is used to teach him a valuable lesson about dealing with negative feedback selectively. He’s also taught to better assess others’ capabilities for providing support before expecting them to provide it.

In this single session intervention, hypnosis is used to address the unrealistic expectations that have led to chronic disappointment and despair. Establishing realistic goals and the specific steps to achieve them is a core part of the intervention.

In this single session intervention hypnosis is utilized to better associate the client to her own body to counter her fears of falling and injuring herself. In this multi-level process, she is encouraged to think not only about her next physical steps more carefully, but also her next steps in life.

In this single session intervention hypnosis is used to help a deeply ambivalent woman make the all-important decision regarding the future of her marriage. Instead of focusing on what she ‘should’ do, the focus is on “how” to make a decision with minimal regrets.