Milton Erickson – Hypnotherapy An Exploratory Casebook

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Summary

• Milton Erickson – Hypnotherapy An Exploratory CasebookDescription:The present work is the second in a series of volumes by the authors that began with the publication of Hypnotic Realities (Irvington, 1976).

• Like that first volume, the present work is essentially the record of the senior author’s efforts to train the junior author in the field of clinical hypnotherapy.

• As such, the present work is not of an academic or scholarly nature but rather a practical study of some of the attitudes, orientations, and skills required of the modern hypnotherapist.In the first chapter we outline the utilization approach to hypnotherapy as the basic orientation to our work.

• In the second chapter we essay a more systematic presentation of the indirect forms of suggestion, which were originally selected out of the case presentations of our first volume.

• We now believe that the utilization approach and the indirect forms of suggestion are the essence of the senior author’s therapeutic innovations over the past fifty years and account for much of his unique skill as a hypnotherapist.