Better not to spend your money on this one. If you really want it try your local library for free.

Some of the book is enjoyable and insightful. However, much of it seems to merely argue semantics. Makes some good points, but is mostly lacking in substance.

"In many ways the concept of hypnosis is analogous to some other mysteries that have confused and confounded scientists in the past--such as phlogiston, the ether wind, and 'N-rays.'" Those are not hypnotism's only analogies. Decades after the Condon Report established that UFOs are misidentified mundane phenomena, the media encourage the ignoranti to believe that humanoid aliens are abducting human beings. A decade after James Randi's Project Alpha, the masses continue to believe in paranormal phenomena. And a decade after Robert Baker proved that "the phenomenon called 'hypnosis' does not exist, has never existed in the past, and will not exist in the future," the masses,whose only source of information is the vast wasteland, continue to believe that 'hypnosis' is more real than demon possession or witchcraft.
Baker shows that "all of what we call 'hypnotic behavior' can be accounted for by a number of much simpler sorts of psychological processes that are well understood.... When normal human beings close their eyes, go into a sleep-like trance state, and do strange and unusual things ... the volunteers are merely complying with the hypnotist's requests, and ... nothing other than suggestion and their own imagination is responsible for their behavior.... As for the claimed therapeutic effectiveness of hypnosis and the many seemingly miraculous cures and events apparently due to the effects of hypnosis, in reality, these are due to a number of external factors such as suggestion and conditioning interacting with internal psychological variables such as relaxation and imagination." And on the kind of hypnotic brainwashing popularized by the novel and movie, "The Manchurian Candidate," Baker reports, "Fortunately, the scenario described in the novel could never happen. Years of experimentation by the CIA has shown this sort of programming simply does not work and never will."
On the fallacy that hypnotism can improve memory, Baker explains that a technique of relaxation and an instruction to "think back" can indeed enable an individual to remember unforgotten experiences in slightly greater detail. What it cannot do is guarantee that the added details are accurate: "At the moment we cannot tell whether a subject is telling the truth or is 'confabulating,' i.e., providing pseudomemories."
In the chapter, "The Uses and Misuses of hypnosis," Baker debunks age regression by showing that equally convincing "memories" can be elicited by telling the subject he is traveling into the future. He explains how the Betty and Barney Hill alien abduction hoax was created by a hypnotist prompting the subjects to concoct the kind of tale the hypnotist wanted to hear--and then persuading them that the confabulation was a genuine memory. "This is, of course, one of the worst if not the worst misuse of so-called hypnosis."
Asked to explain claims of mysterious powers supposedly acquired under hypnosis, Baker answered, "Because some unscrupulous or naive people like to deceive and impress others and make them believe things that aren't true. Salesmen do it all the time in order to sell us things."
So the next time someone tells you that hypnotism is a panacea for all ills, or conversely a diabolical power, ask yourself: Would you buy a used car from that person?