From the front flap of this 570 page book: “Volume One of ‘The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion’ shows Erickson’s development of a non-authoritarian, indirect approach to suggestion.
Subjects are shown experiencing hypnotic phenomena, utilizing their own potentials, and solving their own problems under Erickson’s guidance.
Papers are grouped in four areas: Nature of Hypnosis, Approaches to Trance Induction, Nature of Suggestion, and Possible Dangers of Hypnosis.”