Beloved by practitioners for its wit and precision: Erickson-line patterns demonstrated on everyday communication, with the theory held lightly and the ethics not entirely. Read alongside our Milton Model ethics notes.
Monsters and Magical Sticks
Steven Heller (with Suzanne Steele), 1987 — subtitled "There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis?", an irreverent and technically sharp tour of naturalistic hypnotic patterns.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026