Milton H. Erickson

Milton Hyland Erickson, MD (December 5, 1901 – March 25 1980) was an American psychiatrist 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.

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December 5 - 1901 - March 25 - 1980 - American - Psychiatrist - Hypnosis - American Society for Clinical Hypnosis - American Psychiatric Association - American Psychological Association - American Psychopathological Association

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He is noted for:

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• his often unconventional approach to psychotherapy, such as described in the book Uncommon Therapy by Jay Haley and the book Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook by Milton H. Erickson and Ernest L. Rossi (1979) New York: Irvington Publishers, Inc.
• 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
• his use of interventions that influenced the strategic therapy and family systems therapy practitioners beginning in the 1950s including Virginia Satir and Gregory Bateson
• his conceptualization of the unconscious as highly separate from the conscious mind, with its own awareness, interests, responses, and learnings. For Erickson, the unconscious mind was creative, solution-generating, and often positive.
• his ability to "utilize" anything about a patient to help them change, including their beliefs, favorite words, cultural background, personal history, or even their neurotic habits.
• His influence on 'Neuro-linguistic Programming' (NLP)
 
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