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A Teaching Seminar With Milton H. Erickson 1st Edition by Zeig, Jeffrey K. published by Brunner/Mazel
First published in 1985. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Jeffrey K. Zeig
76 books9 followersJeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. is the Founder and Director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation, He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored more than 20 books on psychotherapy that appear in twelve foreign languages.
Dr. Zeig is the architect of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences, the Brief Therapy Conferences, the Couples Conferences, and the International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.
A psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, Dr. Zeig conducts workshops internationally (more than 40 countries). He is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers in the behavioral sciences.
Dr. Zeig is the architect of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences, the Brief Therapy Conferences, the Couples Conferences, and the International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy.
A psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, Dr. Zeig conducts workshops internationally (more than 40 countries). He is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers in the behavioral sciences.
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April 5, 2016
I think I'd have to say this book is every bit as important to understanding Erickson and his methods as Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook. It's similarly broad, and shares quite a few stories with the Casebook, but told in new ways. The inclusion of Erickson's interactions with his students throughout the teaching provides an invaluable angle on all those "old" lessons - and there's plenty new, as well. There's not only a lot to learn here about hypnotherapy, but also about psychotherapy in general, and the human mind's irrational but predictable patterns.
The appendix, which makes up a solid 20% of the book, provides a very useful meta-commentary wherein Zeig and Erickson go over a portion of the seminar and pause to discuss various things as they unfold. It's a sort of director's commentary, and being able to observe Erickson discuss the why and how of his methods in such detail is a privilege. The whole book is full of such insights, but the appendix is especially rich. I'm not one to highlight books, but I highlighted a good 20-30 passages in the course of this one.
I'd also add that it's a good read for the analytical depressive who wants to get better but feels they can't possibly. I recommended it to just such a friend, who devoured the book in a weekend and promptly found themselves in a forward-thinking state of epiphany. As Erickson liked to say, the patient does all the work - the therapist just creates a fertile environment for change. For some, that lesson is just what they need to break the illusion of being powerless.
The appendix, which makes up a solid 20% of the book, provides a very useful meta-commentary wherein Zeig and Erickson go over a portion of the seminar and pause to discuss various things as they unfold. It's a sort of director's commentary, and being able to observe Erickson discuss the why and how of his methods in such detail is a privilege. The whole book is full of such insights, but the appendix is especially rich. I'm not one to highlight books, but I highlighted a good 20-30 passages in the course of this one.
I'd also add that it's a good read for the analytical depressive who wants to get better but feels they can't possibly. I recommended it to just such a friend, who devoured the book in a weekend and promptly found themselves in a forward-thinking state of epiphany. As Erickson liked to say, the patient does all the work - the therapist just creates a fertile environment for change. For some, that lesson is just what they need to break the illusion of being powerless.
August 2, 2025
Milton Erickson's lectures are very insightful---I love how he helped people overcome habitual phobias, insomnia, bed-wetting
neurosis, and lack of sound judgement.
This man was a true humanitarian, gifted, witty, and extremely practical in approach.
I will give you a teaser--He helps a Young Man Pass a Law Degree Examination, by focusing on a trip on the highway to Arizona--He had flunked the Exam three times prior--Through his use of Autohypnosis and Imagery he passes the test, and barely recognized he had taken it.
"He had him focus on the reasons why he hated the cold climate of Wisconsin", as juxtaposed to the bright warm Sunny backdrop of Arizona while driving from Wisconsin to Arizona.
He has him focus on imagery and scenery on the left side of the highway while driving to his Test Site in Arizona-- " All the while taking in the Beautiful Arizona Morning imagery "
Dr. Zeig also asks interesting questions of why Dr. Erickson seeds different ideas, and places emphasis on certain words.
He will often ask questions and details that seem innocuous, and nuanced, that actually will send you into a trance without realizing it. His Trances are usually Strategic and Therapeutic in Nature, forcing the patient to do an inner search.
His early learning set induction often has clients going back to early childhood memories, to the point where their phobias and symptoms started; he then reorients them to the future, with a chance to leave the problem in the past, and incorporate it as part of a future solution.
Dr. Erickson also tells parallel stories in the chapter of people who would be considered as complete and abject "menaces to society" changed by meeting a love interest which completely reoriented them, and completely turns their lives around--He also turns around a 6 foot 6 Woman life, who had a habit of beating up police officers-by reflecting her destructive behavior back to her subtly.
Dr. Erickson speaks conversationally--but there is a groundswell of information packed into his conversations.
neurosis, and lack of sound judgement.
This man was a true humanitarian, gifted, witty, and extremely practical in approach.
I will give you a teaser--He helps a Young Man Pass a Law Degree Examination, by focusing on a trip on the highway to Arizona--He had flunked the Exam three times prior--Through his use of Autohypnosis and Imagery he passes the test, and barely recognized he had taken it.
"He had him focus on the reasons why he hated the cold climate of Wisconsin", as juxtaposed to the bright warm Sunny backdrop of Arizona while driving from Wisconsin to Arizona.
He has him focus on imagery and scenery on the left side of the highway while driving to his Test Site in Arizona-- " All the while taking in the Beautiful Arizona Morning imagery "
Dr. Zeig also asks interesting questions of why Dr. Erickson seeds different ideas, and places emphasis on certain words.
He will often ask questions and details that seem innocuous, and nuanced, that actually will send you into a trance without realizing it. His Trances are usually Strategic and Therapeutic in Nature, forcing the patient to do an inner search.
His early learning set induction often has clients going back to early childhood memories, to the point where their phobias and symptoms started; he then reorients them to the future, with a chance to leave the problem in the past, and incorporate it as part of a future solution.
Dr. Erickson also tells parallel stories in the chapter of people who would be considered as complete and abject "menaces to society" changed by meeting a love interest which completely reoriented them, and completely turns their lives around--He also turns around a 6 foot 6 Woman life, who had a habit of beating up police officers-by reflecting her destructive behavior back to her subtly.
Dr. Erickson speaks conversationally--but there is a groundswell of information packed into his conversations.
June 2, 2022
Coming from a non-medical person, this book is beyond brilliant. It deserves 100 stars, that is how powerful and important it was to me. If you're interested in people, who they are and why they do what they do, how to change, and if you want to hear the words and stories of an exemplary human being, you might like this book. I'm now on a quest to read anything and everything I can about and by Milton H. Erickson.
Dr. Erickson, near the end of his life, taught. Each class lasted about a week. This is about one of his classes recorded and transcribed by one of his students. Very well done and with an appendix that is nothing short of brilliant. This book can be read again and again, with each time more insight to be gained.
Dr. Erickson, near the end of his life, taught. Each class lasted about a week. This is about one of his classes recorded and transcribed by one of his students. Very well done and with an appendix that is nothing short of brilliant. This book can be read again and again, with each time more insight to be gained.
November 26, 2017
Truly fascinating anecdotal journey into Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Not at all what I expected. Really opened up my thinking about how different thinking can be. Recommended for anyone seeking alternative ways of seeing.
June 4, 2019
2016/5/30
He is intelligent and humane.
He is intelligent and humane.
July 8, 2015
Un seminario didáctico con Milton Erickson, que es la transcripción de Un seminario con Milton Erickson,
hecha por Jeffrey K. Zeig. Milton hablaba que la mente inconsciente es creativa y puede ser solución a los problemas, usaba la hipnósis y la metáfora. Te llegas a sentir parte del seminario con Erickson a pesar de haberse efectuado hace mas de tres decadas. Lleno de anecdotas e historias de las que se puede aprender a varios niveles, desde la historia en general como en lo específico en el uso del lenguaje hipnótico.
hecha por Jeffrey K. Zeig. Milton hablaba que la mente inconsciente es creativa y puede ser solución a los problemas, usaba la hipnósis y la metáfora. Te llegas a sentir parte del seminario con Erickson a pesar de haberse efectuado hace mas de tres decadas. Lleno de anecdotas e historias de las que se puede aprender a varios niveles, desde la historia en general como en lo específico en el uso del lenguaje hipnótico.
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