Table of Contents

Towards healing and health; Stress and allostatic load; Avoiding compassion fatigue; Words that harm, words that heal; Primes and priming; Structure, process and change; Taming the runaway brain; The rules of engagement; The uninterrupted story; The clinical questioning matrix; Accessing patient resources; The symptom as solution; A different kind of reason; Getting to where you want to go; Thinking time; Medical NLP algorithms for change; Hypnosis in healing and health; Coherence, chaos and octopus traps; From functional to functioning; Working with the glyph; Re-patterning and future-pacing; making something of your world; Nine minutes and counting; Communicating for life

About the Author

Garner Thomson, NLP Master Practitioner and Trainer, and founder and training director of the Society of Medical NLP, is the creator of the Medical NLP programme taught to doctors, allied health professionals and medical students since 1996. Trained in NLP by Dr Richard Bandler, and with a background in psychology, communications, Ericksonian hypnotherapy and trans-cultural and integrative healthcare approaches, he also runs a busy Medical NLP and Hypnotherapy practice, writes and lectures widely and appears on radio and television, both as presenter and guest. Dr Khalid Khan is a primary care physician and registered pharmacist. A GP trainer, tutor at King's College London School of Medicine and St George's University of London, he also practises as a medical acupuncturist, is a Fellow of the Chinese Medical Institute and Register (CMIR) and is an advisor to the International Journal of Acupuncture. Author of the popular Mnemonics for Medical Students and a Master Practitioner in both NLP and Medical NLP, Dr Khan is co-founder and primary care advisor to the Society of Medical NLP.