An 8-Part Video Series Including:
ERICKSON on HYPNOSIS
The Boston Nurse
Erickson describes his work with a highly suicidal woman. Discover how his powerful, life-affirming, and beautiful use of hypnosis helps this woman save her own life.
Be Your Own Natural Self
With a lifetime of experience using and experimenting with hypnosis, Erickson teaches about trance depth and offers wisdom about the process.
Dr. D
A rich and extended hypnosis using psychotherapy and the unconscious with a demonstration of hypnotic age regression, dissociation, metaphor, and other hypnotic phenomena.
ERICKSON on BRIEF THERAPY
Joe and Eddie
Erickson tells the remarkable story of how one simple sentence, at the right moment, in the right way, changed the whole course of a criminal's life. This story challenges assumptions about therapy, how long therapy needs to be, and the conditions necessary for change.
The African Violet Queen
The moving story of a single home visit to a severely depressed woman, and Erickson's brilliant and compassionate intervention with her that inspired her to transform her life.
Glorious Happiness Should Not Be Thrown Away
An inspiring story of how Erickson used both shock and reframing to help a woman who was depressed and suicidal over the death of her 6-month-old baby.
Take a Vicious Pleasure
Erickson describes a brief therapy with a woman who had extensive sexual trauma and his brilliant combination of shock, reframing, and compassionate truth-telling that transforms the woman's relationship to her past, her capacity for intimacy, and her own sexuality.
Heidi-Ho
Erickson successfully treats a 6-year-old girl for lying with a single intervention (without ever meeting her). This delightful, imaginative, and endearing case shows Erickson's deep understanding of the inner world of a child.
