Taproots, Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson’s Therapy and Hypnosis, By William Hudson O’Hanlon

This is one of the first books I read of Bill O’Hanlon’s prolific work. I found it fascinating and powerful to think about therapy and helping others from the prospective from which Bill wrote.

This work spoke to me in a way nothing else had even approached. It was like when one is driving on a cloudy day and suddenly the cloud cover thins and the sun shines through with an almost pristine quality. That is how reading this material was for me when I read it for the first time.

After several re-readings much information and intelligence about superior ways to work as a helper have been made clear. One of the strongest aspects of this book is the clear way pattern recognition is delivered, how to use patterns for intervention to provide relief to people suffering as well as a basic usable structure for practicing Ericksonian therapy.