USD“Each person is a unique individual. Hence,
psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual’s needs, rather than tailoring the person
to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.” – Milton H. Erickson
Milton
Hyland Erickson was an American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding
president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative
and solution-generating.
Dr. Erickson was plagued with enormous physical handicaps for most of his life. At
age 17, he contracted polio and was so severely paralyzed that doctors believed he would die. While recovering in bed,
almost entirely lame and unable to speak, he became strongly aware of the significance of nonverbal communication –
body language, tone of voice, and the way that these nonverbal expressions often directly contradicted the verbal ones.
He also began to have “body memories” of the muscular activity of his own body. By concentrating on these memories,
he slowly began to regain control of parts of his body to the point where he was eventually able to talk and use his
arms again. His doctor recommended exercising his upper body only so Milton Erickson planned a 1,000 miles canoe trip to
build up the strength to attend college. His adventure was challenging, and although he still did not have full use of
his legs at the end, he was able to walk with a cane.
Dr. Erickson’s career spanned more than 50 years. He
conducted extensive research on suggestion and hypnosis, first as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin, and
later throughout his medical training and during his initial professional appointments in Rhode Island, Massachusetts,
and Michigan. By the late 1930s, Dr. Erickson was renowned for his work in hypnosis and eminent in psychiatric
circles.
In 1948, Dr. Erickson moved from Michigan to Phoenix. In 1949, he entered into private practice in
his home office, a move which was prompted in large part by medical necessity. Despite almost constant, intense physical
pain and the progressive loss of mobility which lead to confinement to a wheelchair in his later years, Dr. Erickson was
prodigiously active.
In 1957, he and a number of colleagues founded the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis
and Dr. Erickson served as the Inaugural President. He also established the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis and
served as editor for 10 years. During the 1950s and ’60s, Dr. Erickson published copiously, traveled and lectured
extensively, both domestically and abroad, continued to conduct research, and was in high demand as a practicing
psychiatrist. In the 1970s, restricted to his home by his physical condition, Dr. Erickson still conducted teaching
seminars for professionals on an almost daily basis and continued seeing some patients. When he died on March 25th,
1980, at the age of 78, his seminars were booked through the end of that year and requests exceeded another year’s
scheduling. Dr. Erickson left a written legacy of more than 140 scholarly articles and five books on hypnosis which he
co-authored.
The Ericksonian approach departs from traditional hypnosis in a variety of ways. While the
process of hypnosis has customarily been conceptualized as a matter of the therapist issuing standardized instructions
to a passive patient, Ericksonian hypnosis stresses the importance of the interactive therapeutic relationship and
purposeful engagement of the inner resources and experiential life of the subject. Dr. Erickson revolutionized the
practice of hypnotherapy by coalescing numerous original concepts and patterns of communication into the field.
The novel psychotherapeutic strategies which Dr. Erickson employed in his treatment of individuals, couples, and
families derived from his hypnotic orientation. Although he was known as the world’s leading hypnotherapist, Dr.
Erickson used formal hypnosis in only one-fifth of his cases in clinical practice.
Dr. Erickson affected a
fundamental shift in modern psychotherapy. Many elements of the Ericksonian perspective which were once considered
extreme are now incorporated into the mainstream of contemporary practice.
ebooks
A Teaching
Seminar with Milton H Erickson.pdf
David Gordon – Phoenix – Therapeutic Patterns of Milton H Erickson.pdf
Erickson – Collected Papers Vol 1.pdf
Erickson – Collected Papers Vol 2.pdf
Erickson – Collected Papers Vol
3.pdf
Erickson – Collected Papers Vol 4.pdf
Hypnosis scripts.pdf
Magic Words
in Hypnosis.pdf
Milton Erickson – Complete Works Hypnosis.pdf
Milton Erickson – Time Distortion in
Hypnosis.pdf
Milton H Erickson, Ernest L Rossi – Experiencing Hypnosis.pdf
NLP Patterns of the Hypnotic
Techniques of Milton H Erickson – Vol I.pdf
NLP Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H Erickson – Vol
II.pdf
script Book Hypnosis.pdf
The February Man – Milton Erickson.pdf
audio
Ericksonian Conversational Storytelling Hypnosis (64kbps).mp3
Ericksonian Hypnosis – Changing
the Unconscious Mind (64kbps).mp3
Ericksonian Hypnosis – Learning to Trance (64kbps).mp3
Ericksonian Hypnosis
– Resolving Performance Anxiety (64kbps).mp3
Ericksonian Self-Hypnosis (64kbps).mp3
Ericksonian Storytelling
Hypnosis – Healing Temple Sleep Trance Session (64kbps).mp3
Hypnosis audio 12 – An Ericksonian Induction
(64kbps).mp3
Know No Pain, 2009 (64kbps).mp3
Milton Erickson – Hypnosis in Psychiatry (and everything else) 1
of 3 (64kbps).mp3
Milton Erickson – Hypnosis in Psychiatry (and everything else) 2 of 3 (64kbps).mp3
Milton
Erickson – Hypnosis in Psychiatry (and everything else) 3 of 3 (64kbps).mp3
Richard Bandler – Neuro-Linguistic
Programming & Mental Mastery (64kbps).mp3
videos
4 Magic Phrases You Can Use to Respond to
Anything (480p).mp4
An Introduction to Milton Erickson (360p).mp4
Dr Jeffrey Zeig – Exploring the Genius of
Milton Erickson, Part I (480p).mp4
Dr Jeffrey Zeig – Exploring the Genius of Milton Erickson, Part II The
Utilization Approach (480p).mp4
Dr Jeffrey Zeig presents Ericksonian Psychotherapy & Hypnotherapy (480p).mp4
Handshake Induction – Instant Trance Milton Ericson Style (360p).mp4
How to do Hypnosis and Therapy the Erickson
Way (480p).mp4
How to use storytelling and NLP to create sales campaigns, Part 1 (480p).mp4
How to use
storytelling and NLP to create sales campaigns, Part 2 (480p).mp4
Intentional Hypnosis in Everyday Life
(360p).mp4
Milton Erickson – Functions in Hypnosis (360p).mp4
Milton Erickson Hypnosis Demo 1958 (480p).mp4
Milton H Erickson, MD – Treating Loss and Grief (480p).mp4
NLP and Anchoring – Learning the Basics of Emotional
Mastery (480p).mp4
NLP Double Disassociation with John Grinder (480p).mp4
Part 1 – Perspectives on the Masters
– Erickson, Satir, Whitaker, Rogers & Frankl (480p).mp4
Part 2 – Perspectives on the Masters – Erickson, Satir,
Whitaker, Rogers & Frankl (480p).mp4
Robert Dilts – Double Binds Pt 1 (360p).mp4
Robert Dilts – Double
Binds Pt 2 (360p).mp4
Ross Jeffries – Mindframe Persuasion 01 (480p).mp4
Ross Jeffries – Mindframe Persuasion
02 (480p).mp4
Steve Roehm demonstrates Milton Erickson’s Non-Awareness Set (360p).mp4
The Best Model of
Hypnosis Explained – Theory of Mind (480p).mp4
The Humanistic Door to Milton Erickson and Hypnosis (480p).mp4
The State of the Therapist – Lessons from Hypnosis (480p).mp4
Two Hypnotic Language Patterns That Destroy
Resistance (480p).mp4
Using Directives in Experiential Psychology The Dramatic Process of Change (480p).mp4
