Milton Erickson
1901 - 1980) was a psychiatrist and psychologist specializing in medical hypnosis. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the psychotherapy, such as described in the book Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley
- his extensive use of therapeutic metaphor and story as well as hypnosis
- coining the term Brief Therapy for his approach of addressing therapeutic changes in relatively few sessions
Erickson developed a type of hypnotherapy called Ericksonian hypnosis which was believed to be "the communication of ideas" to the patient at an unconscious level.
Erickson was 'modeled' by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, the co-founders of Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP).
Erickson was a prolific author. His prominent works include:
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