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Hope & Resiliency: Understanding the Psychotherapeutic Strategies of Milton H. Erickson
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Great., October 11, 2013
By Mallory Reed
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The book was exactly as described and it was the correct edition as well. Thanks for providing books for us college students who refuse to pay hundreds of dollars at the campus bookstore.
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Definitive Reference on Milton Erickson, May 13, 2013
By D. R. Weber
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Dan Short, and his co-authors, both daughters of Milton Erickson, deliver an excellent book that brings new meaning and insight into the work of the legendary psychiatrist. With carefully selected case examples, they examine not only the methods in which Milton Erickson employed, but more importantly the principles that he utilizes to deliver the most benefit for his patients. While this book is targeted at mental health professionals, anyone who seeks to get a better understanding of the ways in which the mind works would benefit from reading this book. Likewise, this book can provide managers greater insight into dealing with their subordinates and assist in creating a better, more sustainable work environment.
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Brilliant and inspirational, April 24, 2011
By A reader (Santa Cruz, CA USA)
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I'm not a psychology professional, just an interested reader, but I've read a number of books and articles by and about Milton Erickson over the years. This is by far the most insightful I've found. It looks at the underlying principles of Erickson's work with clear language and fascinating examples, instead of obscuring things with mumbo-jumbo (NLP, I'm looking at you) or focusing excessively on specific techniques. The underlying principles seem suited to any school of therapy, not just hypnotherapy or Ericksonian therapy. Overall, a very enjoyable and inspirational read.
3 of 3 people found the above review helpful.
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What a system Short offers!, May 12, 2007
By Sunspower (Tempe, Arizona USA)
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Dr. Dan Short has constructed a very cohesive system of describing Milton H. Erickson's therapeutic techniques, perhaps the best I have ever seen. Short's six therapeutic strategies of progression, partitioning, distraction, suggestion, reorientation and utilization are elegant constructs that I believe may well organize all human helping behavior.
This is a extremely well organized and easy to understand treatment of Erickson's ingenious methods and may inspire the reader interested in psychotherapy and other forms of human empowerment to consider the ways in which he or she is practicing the craft.
5 of 5 people found the above review helpful.
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A non professional reader...enjoys., April 02, 2007
By SoulFireMage (Bristol UK)
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All my qualification for reading this and reviewing this, is simply the amount of reading I've done in nearly two years now. Covering NLP, hypnosis, REBT and some other odds and ends. So professional, I am not.
The 6 strategies covered, I can see operate in a wider realm. The realm of social influence in fact. Having reread the book several times now, I can see in other therapy modalities these threads running through.
From my own limited understanding, this is certainly an addition to my library that goes way beyond techniques, cookbook formulas and "how-to's". Instead, you have a wider overarching set of concepts to inform therapy in a more flexible, responsive and creative way.
The 6 strategies (it is noted that these are *not* exhaustive, just the main ones to be discussed) are Distraction, Progression, Reframing, Suggestion, Partitioning and Utilisation. On later reflection, I realised where some of these apply to rapport building, persuasion as well as engineering social attitudes.
At the time I was reading Cialdini's Influence, and found that the two books together do give me a way to understand propoganda, advertising and sales. Yet this is certainly not the aim of the book in itself. Like any excellent work, it has wider applications than the authors discuss, or where perhaps consciously aware of at the time?
I highly recommend this to hypnotherapists and therapists of any stripe in actual fact. I also recommend it highly to any student of psychology, counselling, advertising (yes, it's way off the curriculum I'm sure) and any agent of influence.
This of course, is only my perspective as one criticism I've had is the sheer number of books I've read in only 2 years means that surely I can't have processed the skills in them properly. Quite right, but I've enjoyed trying :-).
15 of 15 people found the above review helpful.
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Like Spending Time with Erickson, January 28, 2006
By Rubin Battino (Yellow Springs, OH USA)
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Hope and Resiliency. Understanding the Psychotherapeutic Strategies of Milton H. Erickson, M.D." is a wonderful book. I had the sense while reading it that I was in Erickson's office and just listening to him talk. This is a consequence of an informal narrative style wherein the book contains many case studies, comments by Erickson, and comments by his daughters and Short. I have not seen some of these studies and commentaries before, and they shed a new and continuingly interesting light on this remarkable man and his works. There are gems like, "Let patients know that they are going to be cured and that it will take place within them." And "Often in psychotherapy a change of reference is all that is needed." and "Erickson's philosophy of healing was characterized by his attention to the goodness of the patient's mind and body.
The heart of the book centers around organizing Erickson's contributions under the categories of: distraction, partitioning, progression, suggestion, reorientation, and utilization. Although it is next to impossible to characterize or systematize Erickson's work in simple packets, this organization does lend itself to an useful set of guidelines to the man and his work.
This book is highly recommended as it provides the reader with some unique perspectives on Erickson's work, his way of working, and many practical ideas.
Reviewed by: Rubin Battino, MS, LPCC, NCC
25 of 25 people found the above review helpful.
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