About Us
This web site is owned and operated by PFTI.
PFTI is the Parsons Fein-Training Institute for Psychotherapy and Hypnosis, a small family company founded by Jane Parsons-Fein, LCSW, BCD, DAHB. It is our mission to spread and teach the innovative work of Dr. Milton H. Erickson and other breakthrough therapists, healers, and modalities.
PFTI sells a number of training and information products aimed at therapists, social workers, mental health professionals, and executive/life coaches through its web site at www.miltonericksontrainings.comÂ
All content on this site is published and sold with the kind permission of Milton Erickson and The Milton Erickson Foundation.
About These Recordings
Milton H. Erickson MD is widely recognized as one of the 20th Century’s most influential figures in psychotherapy and hypnosis, and one of its most remarkable healers.
Toward the end of his life, confined to a wheelchair and suffering a relapse of polio, he gave a series of long (2 week) seminars to doctors, therapists and scholars at his home in Phoenix. By the time Erickson died, the waiting list to attend one of these seminars was over a year long.
One of these seminars was captured on video by New York therapist, Jane Parsons-Fein in the Fall of 1979. Erickson died just months later.
Parsons-Fein published the full, minimally edited edition of those recordings on DVD (over 35 hours of video) as "In The Room With Milton H. Erickson MD". It is still available to mental health professionals. We created "Milton Erickson Trainings" to serve a wider audience, at a much lower price point.
All products on this site are curated from those original "In The Room With Milton Erickson MD" video recordings, and are distributed here with kind permission from The Milton Erickson Foundation.
If you want to purchase or learn more about the full 35 hour "In The Room" recordings, click the button below.
From the original "In The Room" seminar recordings, we've curated three distinct products to meet different levels of educational need and interest:
1. Milton Erickson In His Own Words
An introductory e-book featuring curated quotations, case histories, and a hypnotic induction from Erickson himself. Also features a brief introduction to Erickson’s life and impact by Nick Parsons LMFT. An accessible and inspiring entry point into Erickson's unique ideas, methods and wisdom.
2. The Genius of Milton EricksonÂ
The foundational curated video part of our "Milton Erickson Trainings" bundle: a streaming video collection offering 2 hours and 40 minutes of carefully selected teaching excerpts designed as an accessible yet impactful exploration of Erickson's cases, techniques and teachings.
3. The Erickson TapesÂ
The advanced part of our "Milton Erickson Trainings" bundle: 17 hours of curated video sessions with Erickson, intended for those who want in depth, immersive exposure to Erickson’s revolutionary methods, thought, and most advanced techniques and teachings.
