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Milton Erickson og indirekte suggestion



Hypnoterapi praktiseret af Milton Erickson kan kort beskrives som ”det der virker”.

”Beyond utilization, Erickson's therapies were characterized not by techniques, but by some general attitudes about therapy – and for that matter, about life. One of these was flexibility in approach. Erickson would use whatever it took to promote change, be it interpretation, indirect suggetion or hypnosis. (Kristina Erickson, M.D., Erickson's youngest daughter, defined the Ericksonian approach as ”that which works.”)

(”Experiencing Erickson, An Introduction to the Man and His Work”, Jeffrey Zeig, side 37.)


”Det der virker” er forskellig fra menneske til menneske. Det er derfor nødvendigt at finde ud af, hvad der skal til, for at få et menneske til at indse, hvor de ubevidst begår fejl og dermed får reaktioner fra omgivelserne de ikke ønsker.

At hjælpe mennesker med at opdage hvori deres fejl bestod, uden at påpege dem direkte, var noget Milton Erickson var expert i. Og han kunne fortælle lange symbolske historier om hvordan personer med lignende fejl som klienten oplevede livet, uden at pege fingre af klienten selv.


Når vi opdager vores egne fejl, og får dem udbedret, kommer vi ud over de forhindringer, der holder os tilbage. Livet begynder at smile til os igen. Ikke bare med et fake smil, men med et autentisk og oprigtigt et.


Ring i dag, og hør om vi kan hjælpe dig.

”Erickson taught by using multiple-level influence communication to elicit resources; this was the same way he did psychotherapy, as well as the same way he did hypnosis. He blurred the lines between ”hypnosis”, ”teaching,” and ”psychotherapy.” When he was teaching, he was doing hypnosis; when he was conducting hypnosis, he was doing psychotherapy.”...”And he always had a goal in mind.”...”I usually didn't teach content; I taught to motivate.”

(”Experiencing Erickson, An Introduction to the Man and His Work”, Jeffrey Zeig, side 6.)



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