Patterns Of The Hypnotic Techniques Of Mlton H. Erickson

Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Vol. I

Richard Bandler and John Grinder

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We dedicate this book with the highest reverence to Ghost O.T. a little snow in summer and Mazda (the car for people who can hear)

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Table of Contents .PREFACE……………………………………Vii AACKNOWLEDGMENTS. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . xi GGUIDE TO VOLUME I of Patterns of Erickson'sWork 1 PART I Identification of Patterns of Erickson's Hypnotic Work. ………………………………………………..5 Introduction: The Map Is Not the Territory. . …... . . . 7 Preview of Patterns. . . . . .. . . . . . ….. . . . . . . . . . .. 15 The Interspersal Hypnotic Technique for Symptom Correction and Pain Control. . . . . . . . ………... . . .. 26 Basic Trance Induction, with Commentary. . .. . .. 51 A Special Inquirywith Aldous Huxley into the Nature and Character of Various States of Consciousness, with Commentary. . . . . . . … . . . ………… . . . . .. 59 PARTII Familiarization with Patterns of Erickson's Hypnotic Work. . . . . . . ….. . . . . . . . …... . . . . . .. 127 Introduction. . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 129 PART II (continued) Pacing, Distraction and Utilization of theDominant Hemisphere. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . …….. . . .. 137 Accessing the Non-Dominant Hemisphere. . . . .. 179 Conclusion to Part II ……………………………201 PART III Construction of the Patterns of Erickson's Hypnotic Work. . . , . . . , , , . . . , ……………….. . . , . . . . ,. 205 Introduction. . . , , . . . , . . . . , , . , . . . . . , , . . . , . . 207 Construction and Use of LinguisticCausal Modeling

Processes. . , , , . , . , . . . . , . , . . . , . , , , 209 Transderivational Phenomena. . , . . . . . . . . , . . , 217 Ambiguity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Lesser Included Structures. . .. . . , . . . , , , . . . . ,. 237 Derived Meanings, . . . . . . . . . , . . . . , . . . . . , . . , 241 Summary of Part III ... . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .. 247 EPILOGUE. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. 253 APPENDIX Syntactic Environments for Identifying Natural Language Presuppositions in English. . . . . . , , . . …………………. . , " 257 BIBLIOGRAPHY. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263

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Guide to Volume I of Patterns of Erickson's Work
Milton Erickson is internationallyacclaimed as the leading practitioner of medical hypnosis. He has written more than a hundred professional articles on hypnosis and has taught and practiced hypnosis since the 1920's. He, more than any other human being in this field, has been able both to explore and to demonstrate the vast potentials that hypnosis has to offer humanity. His ability baffles the scientific mind, and hisaccomplishments, typically. are either viewed as miracles or denounced as impossibilities, although first-hand experience presents him as an undeniable reality, a striking contrast to what most people believe is possible for the mind to accomplish. Furthermore, few of his students have learned to exercise the skills in hypnosis that Milton Erickson uses so easily. The behavior Milton Erickson demonstrates whileboth inducing and utilizing hypnotic states of consciousness is extremely complex. Yet he is very systematic; that is, his behavior has distinctive patterns. Our skill is in building explicit models of complex human behavior. What this means is that we build maps of these complex patterns of behavior and these maps then allow other people to learn and use these behavior patterns. We quote NoamChomsky's remarks1 concerning his initial formulation of a model for modern transformationallinguistics.. . . forms part of an attempt to construct a formalized general theory of linguistic structure and to explore the foundations of such a theory. The search for rigorous formulation in linguistics has a much more serious motivation than mere concern for logical niceties or the desire to purify...