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Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.
Milton H. Erickson
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Milton H. Erickson
Age: 78 †
Born: 1901
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
Hypnotherapist
Hypnotist
Psychiatrist
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Aurum
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Milton Hyland Erickson
Milton 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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You don't take insults. You leave them with the insulter.
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I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!
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You use hypnosis not as a cure but as a means of establishing a favorable climate in which to learn.
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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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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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The most important thing in changing human behavior is the person's motivation.
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A goal without a date is just a dream.
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Trance is a natural everyday experience.
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You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.
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The Structure of Magic I by Richard Bandler and John Grinder is a delightful simplification of the infinite complexities of the language I use with patients. In reading this book, I learned a great deal about the things that I've done without knowing about them.
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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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Therapy is often a matter of tipping the first domino.
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The unconscious works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.
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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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Little is really known of the actual potentials of human functioning.
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There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.
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Don't ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.
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Shut up, sit in that chair there and go into a deep trance!
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I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.
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