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This book is the text to accompany HMI’s Foundations in Hypnotherapy program…the videos have been previously uploaded here: their website:Dr. John Kappas’ Professional Hypnotism Manual is more than just another book about hypnosis. It is instead a comprehensive system for looking at people’s behavior as a whole under an umbrella that is best described as “subconscious behaviorism.”In this text, Dr. Kappas completely redefines our understanding of hypnosis and how it works with his “Message Unit Theory of Hypnosis”, as well as introduces his revolutionary model of “Emotional and Physical Suggestibility and Sexuality.” The “E and P” model provides hypnotherapists with a road map of how each client requires a unique delivery of hypnotic suggestions and a novel understanding of the wide range of subconscious behaviors and responses between individual subjects.These new concepts, along with the countless gems of practical wisdom contained in this book, have earned the book distinction as a classic text in the hypnosis of modern history.Dr. John G. Kappas (1925-2002) unknowingly distinguished himself as the father of Hypnotherapy as a distinct and separate profession when, with the help of the AFL/CIO International Union, he authored the definition of “Hypnotist” and “Hypnotherapist” for the Federal Dictionary of Occupational Titles. The introduction of these titles into the Federal Dictionary in 1973 marked the official recognition of the practice of hypnosis and the title of Hypnotherapist as a distinct and separate profession from the practice of Psychology.Dr. Kappas’ influence on the profession of hypnotherapy in the U.S. expanded further in 1987 when the non-profit organization, the Hypnosis Motivation Institute (HMI), founded by Kappas in 1968, achieved distinction as the first hypnotherapy college in America to become nationally accredited by an accrediting agency authorized by the U.S. Department of Education.*Although some of the material is outdated, the book provides some good info, especially concerning Emotional and Physical Suggestibility…plus, it’s hard to find, except on their website*