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This resonates with Charles Tart's idea (put forward in the book Waking Up)
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Communicating by Metaphor - This is explored extensively in Sydney Rosen's My Voice Will Go With You, but an example is given in the first chapter of David Gordon's book Phoenix:
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Encouraging Resistance - For Erickson, the classic therapeutic request to "tell me everything about..." was both aggressive and disrespectful, instead he would ask the resistant patient to withhold information and only to tell what they were really ready to reveal:
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Encouraging Resistance
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I usually say, "There are a number of things that you don't want me to know about, that you don't want to tell me. There are a lot of things about yourself that you don't want to discuss, therefore let's discuss those that you are willing to discuss."
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Simply a hypnotic technique. To make them respond to the idea of withholding, and to respond to the idea of communicating
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Providing a Worse Alternative (The 'Double Bind') -
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Accordingly I presented the calf with a double bind by seizing it by the tail and pulling it away from the barn, while my father continued to pull it inward. The calf promptly chose to resist the weaker of the two forces and dragged me into the barn
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Communicating by Metaphor
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"How did you know you should come here?" I said, "I didn't know. The horse knew. All I did was keep his attention on the road."
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Encouraging a Relapse
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Encouraging a Response by Frustrating It
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Utilizing Space and Position
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Prescribing the Symptom and Amplifying a Deviation
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INTERVIEWER: Suppose someone called you and said there was a kid, nineteen or twenty years old, who has been a very good boy, but all of a sudden this week he started walking around the neighborhood carrying a large cross. The neighbors are upset and the family's upset, and would you do something about it. How would you think about that as a problem? Some kind of bizarre behavior like that.
ERICKSON: Well, if the kid came in to see me, the first thing I would do would be to want to examine the cross. And I would want to improve it in a very minor way. As soon as I got the slightest minor change in it, the way would be open for a larger change. And pretty soon I could deal with the advantages of a different cross - he ought to have at least two. He ought to have at least three so he could make a choice each day of which one. It's pretty hard to express a psychotic pattern of behavior over an ever-increasing number of crosses -
Seeding Ideas
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Avoiding Self-Exploration
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INTERVIEWER: You don't feel that exploring the past is particularly relevant? I'm always trying to get clear in my mind how much of the past I need to consider when doing brief therapy.
ERICKSON: You know, I had one patient this last July who had four or five years of psychoanalysis and got nowhere with it. And someone who knows her said, "How much attention did you give to the past?" I said, "You know, I completely forgot about that." That patient is, I think, a reasonably cured person. It was a severe washing compulsion, as much as twenty hours a day. I didn't go in to the cause or the etiology; the only searching question I asked was "When you get in the shower to scrub yourself for hours, tell me, do you start at the top of your head, or the soles of your feet, or in the middle? Do you wash from the neck down, or do you start with your feet and wash up? Or do you start with your head and wash down?"
INTERVIEWER: Why did you ask that?
ERICKSON: So that she knew I was really interested.
INTERVIEWER: So that you could join her in this?
ERICKSON: No, so that she knew I was really interested. -
psychological shocks and ordeals
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Ian DavisHis masters voice. No one is as important as Milton Erickson when it comes to conversational hypnosis. The man is a hypnosis god.
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largely self-taught
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and a great many of his anecdotal and autobiographical teaching stories are collected by Sidney Rosen in the book My Voice Will Go With You. Erickson identified many of even his earliest personal experiences as hypnotic or autohypnotic.
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Erickson frequently drew upon his own experiences to provide examples of the power of the unconscious mind. He was
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Erickson believed that the unconscious mind was always listening, and that, whether or not the patient was in trance, suggestions could be made which would have a hypnotic influence, as long as those suggestions found some resonance at the unconscious level.
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We hypothesize that in everyday life consciousness is in a continual state of flux between the general reality orientation and the momentary microdynamics of trance...[7]
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Marc-Alexandre Gagnon@ToughLoveforX Remember Milton H. Erickson said we constantly go in and out of trance states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_H._Erickson
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Keith MacDonaldPioneer of "spontaneous" hypnosis and non-talk-based therapy. Much of his work was used as the basis of NLP
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Craig RettigConfusion is the basis of Erickson's famous hypnotic handshake. Many actions are learned and operate as a single "chunk" of behavior: shaking hands and tying shoelaces being two classic examples. If the behavior is diverted or frozen midway, the person li
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