Milton Hyland Erickson (5 December 1901 – 25 March 1980) was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. He is also noted for influencing brief therapy, strategic family therapy, family systems therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and neuro-linguistic programming.
Milton Erickson was a Pioneer in the field of Therapeutic Psychology and Hypnosis--He was great at helping people overcoming there habitual limitations by reframing things, seeding thoughts, mining the unconscious to overcome childhood phobias and complexes--He was a master at using trance and Hypnosis to untangle emotional complexes---he battled with polio his whole life--He is truly an unsung Hero. I also recommend his book "My voice will go with you " This book can help a lot of people
This is really an ideological biography; it's not a novel of ambition like Atlas Shrugged, but it details the life of a man who took a parlor trick, or plain quackery and made it into a plausible therapeutic alternative. Tell me if you notice the Forrest Gump scene.