This book fortunately does not deal with how Milton Erickson would have done it better. Although the central theme is Ericksonian hypnosis induction, it is actually a handbook for psychotherapeutic change – a book that teaches you as a therapist to improve your communication skills. One of the main problems in any therapy is to increase the patient's willingness to cooperate. Often, patients come to therapy because they have lost the ability to cooperate with themselves and with other important people in their lives. They become trapped in recurring patterns of limited choice and can no longer find the path to their inner abilities for change. Gilligan helps us understand how we can effectively tailor unconventional therapeutic communication in general, and trance induction in particular.