What is Ericksonian Hypnosis?

Question

I keep running across Erickson's name and "so called techniques", but the more I read the more confused I get.

Answer 1

You are speaking of the techniques of Milton Erickson.  Erickson used what is called an Interface humanitarian design.  Many people support the techniques practiced, others however, do not.  Hypnosis is a powerful tool in the hands of a master practitioner.  Be careful of imposter's and fly-by-night institutions that claim to be able to teach any reasonable therapeutic technique.  Hypnosis in the hands of a faker or poorly trained social worker is like a loaded gun in the hands of a child.

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Answer 2

I will give you the standard answer first. His was a distinctive method based on a number of principles implicit in the guiding of Ericksonian interventions: "Accept and utilize."  --    It was collectively called the utilization approach. * Each person is unique * The client's experience  is valid for him * Each person relates to on going experience  from his own frame of reference * Join the client at the client's frame of reference  *The unconscious mind is rich in resources, positive in nature, and patterned from experience * Trance is naturalistic-----