Comments on: Milton Erickson – Father of Hypnotherapy

By: Vikki Brock

Vikki Brock — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 21:26:46 +0000

Thanks to both of you – Ramon for the clarification and your resources; Eric for the work ‘utilizing’.

This is what I enjoy about our community – I am always learning and growing. Thanks for sharing and enriching this discussion,

Vikki Brock

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:46:21 +0000

Perhaps neither asking nor telling – but utilizing would be a more specific word. Milton utilized the clients own, often dormant, resources and offered open-ended directives that allowed the client’s fundamental impulse for life to express itself.

By: Ramon Ruiz

Ramon Ruiz — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:57:27 +0000

Vikki,

I’m reading your post about Milton Erickson.

In it you wrote:

“…his work was about asking rather than telling…”

I don’t agree.

Erickson is famous for the way he talked to his patients. For his talking and his stories.
Questions produce awareness, tales produce dreams.
His metaphors are famous and his way to hypnotize his patients was talking, never asking questions.

Fritz Perls was famous asking questions. In fact, his questions became the famous meta model which was the main theme in the first book by Grinder and Bandler.

I suggest the following for you to read:

“Complete Works – Milton Erickson.”
“Tranceformations”, “The Hypnotic Patterns of Milton Erickson I & II”, “The Structure of Magic” by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

Ramon Ruiz
Sales Expert Trainer and Consultant
Certified NLP Trainer by Richard Bandler