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I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
Milton H. Erickson
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Milton H. Erickson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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Milton Hyland Erickson
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Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual's needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.
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I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.
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The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?
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Life isn't something you can give an answer to today. You should enjoy the process of waiting, the process of becoming what you are. There is nothing more delightful than planting flower seeds and not knowing what kind of flowers are going to come up.
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Trance is a natural everyday experience.
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Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
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Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.
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Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.
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Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
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As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.
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Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.
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Life is lived in the present and directed toward a future.
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Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their own unconscious... Patients are people who have had too much programming - so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves.
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Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.
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The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.
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You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.
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You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.
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What is easiest to see is often overlooked.
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The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
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Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.
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