Trances People Live: Healing Approaches in Quantum Psychology - Stephen Wolinsky, in collaboration with Margaret O. Ryan

Stephen Wolinsky explores how people become caught in recurring emotional, behavioural and psychological patterns, which he describes as trance states. Drawing on Eastern philosophy, Western psychotherapy, Ericksonian hypnosis and ideas inspired by quantum physics, he argues that these patterns influence how people perceive themselves and interpret their experiences. Through this approach, the book examines how habitual responses and unresolved past experiences can sustain distress, and how recognising these patterns may open up different ways of responding. Written in collaboration with Margaret O. Ryan, it includes a foreword by psychiatrist Carl Whitaker. Published by Bramble Books in 1991, this edition runs to approximately 260 pages.