Milton H. Erickson Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description

Milton Hyland Erickson, MD (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 American Psychopathological Association.

He was noted for:

• his often unconventional approach to 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:

• Hypnotic Realities

Related topics

• List of NLP topics
• Hypnosis
• Hypnotherapy

External links

• The Erickson Foundation is part of an international organization that carries on his work and promotes the Erickson approach to therapy. It has a biography of Erickson available here written by Haley.

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