Therapeutic Techniques
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The Busboy Who Kept Filling a Full Glass
Milton Erickson shifted his saucer an inch, and waiters came to refill his cup without knowing why. He also kept a locked drawer of sealed predictions to test his own intuition. What his…
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The Woman Inside the Trance
In 1962, Milton Erickson’s wife went into trance in front of a room of doctors, and described exactly what it felt like, while it was happening.
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The Gleam in His Eye
Arlene Wolberg didn’t go to Milton Erickson’s house expecting a session. It was sometime between 1945 and 1949, and her husband Lewis, a psychiatrist himself, was still shaking off an illness. The…