Hope and Resiliency Understanding the Psychotherapeutic Strategies of Milton H. Erickson

Name: Hope and Resiliency Understanding the Psychotherapeutic Strategies of Milton H. Erickson
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ISBN: 9781904424932

ISBN-10: 1904424937

ISBN-13: 9781904424932

Edition: 2005

Authors: Dan Short, Betty Alice Erickson, Roxanna Erickson Klien

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Milton H. Erickson is recognized as one of the most innovative clinicians of our time. He is known as the father of modern hypnosis as well as the source for many modern forms of family therapy and brief therapy (including the increasingly popular solution-focused therapy) This seminal book examines the major core strategies that are woven throughout Milton H. Erickson's work. Each strategic principle is broken down into several techniques that share a common function. To help bring to life these clinical strategies and to provide the experience of witnessing masterful clinical work, this book contains numerous clinical examples from Erickson (many of these never before published) and…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Crown House Publishing LLC
Publication date: 2/1/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.38" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Former Associate Director and Chief Archivist for the Milton H. Erickson Foundation in the United States

A licesnsed professional counselor, marriage and family therapist.

Roxanna Erickson Klein PhD is a member of the Board of Directors of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation. She is also co-editor of the 17 volume set of Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson.



Foreword



Preface


A Biographical Sketch of Milton H. Erickson


Overview


Family background


Childhood


Late adolescence


Professional beginnings


Post-polio syndrome


The later years



Foundations of Healing and Health



Introduction



The Human Condition



Mental Health and Healing



The Role of the Clinician



A Philosophical Framework


Summary



Clinical Strategies



Introduction to the Six Core Strategies



Distraction


Red herring


Questioning and presupposition


Emphasis on detail


Therapeutic amnesia


The general application of distraction



Partitioning


Symptom definition


Formal diagnosis


Prognostic splitting


Dividing conscious


Dissection


Partitioning of time and space


The general application of partitioning



Progression


Geometric progression


Progressive desensitization


Pattern interruption


Cognitive progression


Forward progression


The general application of progression



Suggestion


Cooperation versus control


Direct suggestion


Indirect suggestion


Permissive suggestion


Interspersal and repetition


The confusion technique


The general application of suggestion



Reorientation


Insight


Reframing


Externalization


Reorientation in time


The general application of reorientation



Utilization


Simple bind


Double bind


Utilization of a minor problem


Symptom prescription


General application of utilization



Conclusion


About the book


Contraindications


Putting the knowledge to use



Self-Development Exercises


Distraction


Partitioning


Progression


Suggestion


Reorientation


Utilization


References


Index