PSYC 4060 Chapter Notes - Chapter Erikson's Groundwork: Etiology, The Main Point, Muscle Tone
8 Mar 2020
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His initial professional positions were with state asylums (mental hospitals), which led him to develop innovative approaches as there were not many successful approaches and techniques for doing therapy with severely disturbed individuals. He started to generalize from the hypnotic experiments, experiences, and techniques into a broader hypnotic approach to psychotherapy: he used his mastery of hypnotic communication skills and interpersonal influence in therapy that used no formal trance. A central premise of this work is that there is an underlying unity to erickson"s hypnosis and his therapy work. Believed that people have within them the natural abilities to overcome difficulties, to resolve problems and to go into a trance and to have all of the trance phenomena. He was opposed to trying to teach people things in psychotherapy. Everybody reacts differently, according to his own background personal experience .
