Ericksonian hypnotherapy

Abstract

The author does a presentation of the main characteristics of the Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, created by Milton Hyland Erickson. She begins her article with a biographical note about M. Erickson, pointing out the interpersonal tactics for approaching a patient, the ones that have as a goal to liberate the potentialities for self-helpness, both in hypnotic state as in wakefulness state.
Erickson Hypnotherapy does not only work with specific techniques for treating the symptoms, but it works and uses the attitudes, self-image, behavioral and emotional flexibility and family structure, important factors for a wider changing process.