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From the front flap of this 304 page book: "'Mind-Body Communications in Hypnosis contains much of the source material wherein Erickson first expressed his original views on psychosomatic medicine and healing. We are now learning how the languages of mind (through imagery, emotion, and sensation) are communicating with the languages of the body (hormones, messenger molecules, information substances). This new research is providing a scientific basis for the ancient dreams and practices of alchemists, shamans, and spiritual healers of all times and cultures. It validates the view that psyche, mind, and brain are pervasively integrated in modulating body processes in health and illness. The 'miracle cures', spontaneous remissions of lethal diseases, and placebo effects that seemed inexplicable to the scientific mind only a few years ago can now be understood as manifestations of mind-body information systems that extend far beyond the limitations formerly placed on the central nervous system."
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 Five Stars, May 28, 2015
By Susan Lee RN
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Hypnotherapy collection, December 19, 2013
By Edwards_CSG
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Another collection of Milton Erickson's work. Anyone who has read Jay Haley' s Uncommon Therapy will enjoy reading some of the original/source material found in this book.
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Ericksonian Hypnosis, May 01, 2003
By Laura De Giorgio
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The book explores some of Erickson's experiences with creating changes in the body through hypnosis, as in the following story:
"A normal 18-year-old girl was very distressed over the fact that she had not shown any evidence of breast development.
Her father was a physician, and at the age of 12 he had loaded her up with every kind of hormone possible. Yet there was no breast development of any sort; still none by 13, or 14, or 15. He finally quit the treatments and just gave up hope.
By the age of 18, the girl was making an extremely shizoid adjustment, withdrawing completely. She had an extremely disagreeable mother and she just hated her mother thoroughly.
So her doctor-father sent her to Erickson, asking him, "What can you do to keep my daughter from becoming schizophrenic?"
Well, it took Erickson about an hour to get the girl to tell him herself that she had no breast development whatsoever. She did agree, however, to go into a trance, and so he spent a couple more hours putting her into a deep trance very cautiously, very gently, very indirectly.
Then while she was in a deep trance state he explained to her how ignorant a man is about what a breast feels like; that he can't have any idea of how it feels to grow a breast; that he can't know what a breast feels like during a menstrual period; that he cannot really know what a woman's nipple feels like during menstruation.
And he spent a good deal of time presenting that sort of idea to her very repetitiously.
Next he explained in a similarly repetitious manner that since she was a girl, somehow or other she must have the right nerves, the right blood vessels with which to grow breasts.
He told her that when she was alone in the privacy of her room - she would someway, somehow, get a tremendous surging feeling in the breast area; and suddenly, somehow, her rudimentary nipples would feel warm, and she would have the feeling that something was happening.
He told her very honestly that he didn't know what that feeling was, but that she could find out; and that she could get that tremendous surging feeling, that growing feeling or whatever it was, and then drift off to sleep very comfortably.
Erickson saw the girl once a week for two months, at which time she had very well developed breasts."
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