Dr. Zeig: Hi, this is Jeff Zeig. I'm in the
offices of Milton H. Erickson Foundation in
Phoenix, Arizona. I'm going to give you an
opportunity to stream a video of Milton Erickson.
It's an illustrative case of Milton Erickson
working with a phobia. It's something that I've
learned a lot from and that I encourage you to
watch and to learn a lot from too. You're going to
see a myriad of different techniques presented
within strategic packaging, strategic meaning that
a therapist has a goal in mind and makes a series
of concerted steps to reach that goal. Erickson
was famous for his strategic approach. But within
that network of strategic steps, there's a number
of techniques that are unusual that are being
used. An unusual way of understanding that what
clients say in the assessment portion of a session
needs to be understood in relationship to the
client. There's the use of hypnotic symptom
prescription, a very unusual use of a symptom
prescription technique done under hypnosis.
There's the technique of displacement, moving a
problem. There's a technique of involving other
people in the social system to make the power of
the intervention come alive. There are things that
you'll be able to learn from this. I would call it
a flagship case of Milton Erickson that will help
you to be able to find components that you can
bring into your psychotherapy, regardless of the
discipline to which you subscribe. Regardless of
the method of psychotherapy that you use, we can
all empower our communication, the message that we
want, the client to understand, the message that
we want the client to realize, can be empowered
and we can learn some of those things by studying
Milton Erickson, especially by studying this case.
This is Jeff Zeig in Phoenix, Arizona at the
offices of the Milton Erickson Foundation.
