Uncommon therapy: the psychiatric techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D

Jay Haley0393008460, 9780393008463

Milton H. Erickson, M.D. is generally acknowledged to have been the world’s leading practitioner of medical hypnosis. His “strategic therapy,” using hypnotic techniques with or without actually inducing trance, allows him to get directly to the core of a problem and prescribe a course of action that can lead to rapid recovery. This book provides a comprehensive look at Dr. Erickson’s theories in practice, through a series of case studies covering the kinds of problems that are likely to occur at various stages of the human life cycle. The results Dr. Erickson achieves sometimes seem to border on the miraculous, but they are brought about by a finely honed technique used by a wise, intuitive, highly trained psychiatrist-hypnotist whose work is recognized as a major contribution to the field. .

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Table of contents :
Uncommon Therapy……Page 1
Contents……Page 4
Introduction……Page 6
Strategic Therapy……Page 10
The Family Life Cycle……Page 28
The Courtship Period: Changing the Young Adult……Page 44
Character Revision of the Young Adult……Page 76
Marriage and its Consequences……Page 100
Childbirth and Dealing with the Young……Page 124
Marriage and Family Dilemmas……Page 150
Weaning Parents from Children……Page 176
The Pain of Old Age……Page 198
Epilogue……Page 210