Rene A. Bastarache, CI Author, Instructor, Infopreneur Rene Bastarache (Bass-tah-rash) is the author with his wife Raluca (beautiful woman in the picture above) of over a dozen self-help books which can be seen on this page. Mr. Bastarache is a Board Certified Hypnosis Practitioner, and the current Director of the American International Association of Hypnosis, which is the largest Human Potential, and Hypnotherapy Association Worldwide. He has taught thousands of people in over 150 countries how to change their lives by changing their thinking. Rene has built a reputation as being the "How to Authority" on the mind, thought and imagination training as a result of writing his CLINICAL HYPNOSIS Training Manual from A-Z in 2005 that has become the definitive text in hypnotherapy and positive mental change worldwide. He founded the world-renowned American School of Hypnosis in 1996 that since then has expanded to over 17 locations internationally.