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Teaching Seminar with Milton H. Erickson, M.D

by Milton H. Erickson

This volume presents the complete transcript of a **five-day seminar** with Milton Erickson. Here the reader will experience Erickson talking about his method of therapy, demonstrating his techniques, telling one fascinating anecdote after another - anecdotes which often produce feelings of **cognitive dissonance and surprise**, but eventually illuminate new ways of seeing patients and thinking about psychotherapy. In his introductory chapter, **Jeffrey Zelig** demonstrates how *Erickson used anecdotes to **communicate on several levels at once** in an extremely powerful way*. In addition, the appendix provides a detailed discussion by Erickson and Zelig of two introductions in the transcripts, revealing the precision of Erickson's teaching, in which *every movement, every inflection, and every association have significance*.

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