ERICKSONIAN APPROACHES: Exercises and Demonstrations Audio CD Rubin Battino, M.S. and Thomas L. South, Ph.D. In this program author and therapists Rubin Battino and Thomas South demonstrate the correct (and incorrect) delivery of trance inductions and Ericksonian metaphors in hypnosis. They show multiple embedded metaphors, a technique pioneered by Stephen and Carol Lankton, and a hand levitation hypnosis induction.