The legacy of Milton Erickson

The book includes selected works written by Stephen Gilligen, a student and follower of Milton Erickson, dedicated to the theory and practice of Erickson's hypnosis. It reveals the most important postulates, the principles and secrets of Erickson therapy, which were further developed and enriched by Hilligen in the process of its evolution as a psychotherapist.

The book is well illustrated by practical examples of the “three whales” of Erickson therapy: the process of utilizing symptoms And problems as solutions, the deep wisdom of the unconscious and generating trinity of relations between therapist and client. A special emphasis is on the integrity and humanity of the psychotherapist himself.

, the individual chapters of the book are devoted to working with depressive clients, group work with incest victims, the use of rituals and age regression for therapeutic purposes, combining hypnosis and a method of desensitization and the processing of the eye movement (DPDG), etc.

the book is intended for specialists-psychotherapists and hypnotherapists, psychologists-consultants, NLP practices leading various trainings, students and graduate students, and for readers interested in psychology, psychotherapy, modern hypnosis methods and personality development methods.