The theories and techniques taught by David Elman to medical doctors and dentists during the last century is about much more than rapid, direct hypnosis. It provides valuable insight into the nature of suggestion and imagination and the art and science of hypnosis. Elman, a radio personality who played a role in the Office of Strategic Services (a precursor of the CIA) during World War II, was a talented stage hypnotist. When several medical doctors had attempted to apply hypnosis in their treatment of patients, they became dissatisfied with the techniques taught to them by Elman's chief rival, who was a psychiatrist who specialized in a permissive approach.

Studying Elman gives the student a deep insight into the true nature of hypnosis and its transformative power. Elman's courses began with a basic 3-minute procedure, which I call the Elman Technique. He then required his students to get the same results in less than a minute. Next, he taught them how this could be done even without achieving a trance state. And he taught several pain management techniques to include Hypnotic Coma, which I successfully used to undergo outpatient surgery without sedation. Unfortunately, most courses and books on Elman fail to get past the basic Elman Technique. This volume contains the entire Elman Hypnotherapy: Beyond the Basics series of nine books.

These books are based upon the Elman course taught by The International Hypnosis Research Institute as part of the Advanced Neuro-Noetic Hypnosis certification program.