A Teaching Seminar With Milton H. Erickson

Brunner/Mazel, 1980. Hardcover. Like New. This volume presents the complete transcript of a five-day seminar with Mil ton Erickson. Her the reader will experience Erickson talking about his met hod of therapy, demonstrating his techniques, telling one fascinating anecd ote after another - anecdotes which often produce feelings of cognitive dis sonance and surprise, but eventually illuminate new ways of seeing patients and thinking about psychotherapy. In his introductory chapter, Jeffrey Zel ig demonstrates how Erickson used anecdotes to communicate on several level s at once in an extremely powerful way. In addition, the appendix provides a detailed discussion by Erickson and Zelig of two introductions in the tra nscripts, revealing the precision of Erickson's teaching, in which every mo vement every inflection and every association have significance.