 | Tricks of the Mind by Derren Brown
Buy new: £4.37 / Used from: £2.20 very nice introduction to thinking critically (among other topics such as memory enhancement), with respect to suggestion, nlp and the supernatural
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 | Placebo: Mind Over Matter in Modern Medicine by Dylan Evans
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £3.32 the how and why (including evolutionary accounts) of the placebo effect, with a chapter on psychotherapy as a placebo
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 | Talking Cures and Placebo Effects (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry) by David A. Jopling
Buy new: £31.30 / Used from: £32.03 conceiving psychodynamic psychotherapy as a placebo arising from insight (self deception) and compliance (indirect persuasion). includes ethics and philosophical discussion
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 | Monsters and Magical Sticks: Or, There's No Such Thing as Hypnosis by Steven Heller
Buy used from: £8.36 what hypnosis "really" is(?), full of clinical cases demonstrating how broad hypnosis is. if you read one book only_about_hypnosis, read this one. not a how-to book
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 | The Last Self-help Book You'll Ever Need: Repress Your Anger, Think Negatively, be a Good Blamer and Throttle Your Inner Child by Paul Pearsall
Buy new: £6.85 / Used from: £7.44 hilarious and provocative book encouraging mindful thinking, informed by positive psychology research. if you have found self selp book useless and irritating, you will love this one
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 | The Rainbow Machine: Tales from a Neuro-linguist's Journal by Andrew T. Austin
Buy new: £8.22 / Used from: £4.95 clinical cases showing what someone with an nlp background and a passion to help others can achieve with patients/clients
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 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: £8.57 / Used from: £5.20 how bad thinking occurs, why is it bad and what we can do about it without making ourselves less happy(?)
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 | Irrationality by Stuart Sutherland
Buy new: £5.97 / Used from: £3.43 exceptional book on human irrationality. broad, exciting and very good reviews.
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 | Pragmatics of Human Communication: Study of Interactional Patterns, Pathologies and Paradoxes by P Watzlawick
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £13.00 a bit dense but thoroughly enjoyable book about pathological communication with very deep insights about what causes them and what can be done about them
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 | Change: Principles of Problem Formation and Problem Resolution by P Watzlawick
Buy new: £11.67 / Used from: £9.23 similar to the above focusing more on the process of changing interaction patters and behaviours
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 | Uncommon Therapy: Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H.Erickson, M.D. by J Haley
Buy new: £7.05 / Used from: £4.19 very good book about M.H. Erickson's approach to therapy. inspiring
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 | Phoenix: Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H.Erickson by David Gordon
Buy new: £21.50 / Used from: £10.64 similar to the above but more descriptive and with easy structure to understand what Erickson does and why
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 | Provocative Therapy by Frank Farrelly
Buy new: £23.74 / Used from: £17.94 a very different approach to therapy using confrontation and utilising resistance to achieve change
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 | Evolution of Psychotherapy: First Conference
Buy used from: £12.99 conference transcript with excellent overview of different approaches, organized by the M.H. Erickson Foundation. Provides both depth of analysis on the assumptions of therapy and breadth of methods
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 | Taproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson's Therapy and Hypnosis (A Norton professional book) by WH OHanlon
Buy new: £12.22 / Used from: £5.53 similar to "Uncommon Therapy" and "Phoenix" but more concise
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 | Persuasion and Healing: Comparative Study of Psychotherapy by Jerome D. Frank MD PhD
Buy new: £11.60 / Used from: £13.00 will be reading this shortly. persuasion and psychotherapy
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 | Influence: Science and Practice by Robert B. Cialdini
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £9.91 a classic on how we can be influenced by others and how to protect ourselves elegantly. read this before reading anything even remotely involving influence of one person over another
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 | Psychotherapy as Religion: The Civil Divine in America by William M. Epstein
Buy new: £21.38 / Used from: £14.35 haven't read this yet but looks very relevant and interesting.
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 | The Trouble with Therapy: Sociology and Psychotherapy by Peter Morrall
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £15.00 a critique of psychotherapy from a sociological point of view. even if you disagree, still a very good read with a breadth of ideas.
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 | A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives by Cordelia Fine
Buy new: £5.99 psychology of self deception. can be depressing and can result in denial but enlightening. matches well with (3) with its discussion that well being requires a large dose of self deception
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 | Expectation: The Very Brief Therapy Book by Rubin Battino
Buy new: £19.00 / Used from: £23.55 exceptional review of brief therapy methods (incl. nlp), with useful recommendations for further readings. one of the best I've read so far
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 | Neurolinguistic Psychotherapy: A Postmodern Perspective (Advancing Theory in Therapy) by Lisa Wake
Buy new: £15.08 / Used from: £21.40 will be reading this shortly. there is a review at http://nlprandr.org/?page_id=264
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 | Resolve: A New Model of Therapy by Richard Bolstad
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £13.00 the best nlp-based therapy book I have read. perfect for practitioners with some knowledge to let them decide what to do when. detailed review: http://nlprandr.org/?page_id=474
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 | 50 Psychology Classics: Who We Are, How We Think, What We Do by Tom Butler-Bowdon
Buy new: £7.46 / Used from: £5.99 a book with thoughtful summaries of psychology related books. bought many of them after reading this.
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 | Influencing With Integrity: Management Skills for Communication and Negotiation by Genie Z. Laborde PhD
Buy new: £13.28 / Used from: £8.76 for those concerned that nlp is manipulative and expoitative. mainly for business settings.
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