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Kirk critiques and praises Milton Erickson.


The Psychology In Seattle Podcast.


June 25, 2012.


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Anonymous

This is funny because I was just now listening to a guy talking about hypnotherapy on youtube, and he was fawning all over Erickson. It seems to me that he had some sort of trickster/shaman act going on, harking back to tribal healers etc... Somehow he reminds me of Alejandro Jodorowski's "psychomagic" and the crazy rituals he made people enact (I'd love to hear your take on that, btw!)

Anonymous

Wow I didn’t really know much about him...everything he did sounds like a GIANT lawsuit waiting to happen by today’s standards...and yet I’ve seen his name a few random times in NCE study materials (usually associated with hypnotherapy). It’s a little disturbing to me that I have been exposed to his name in the context of a reputable figure in the history of our field (granted, I’m in a clinical mental health counseling program, maybe he’s less emphasized than in marriage/fam?), yet no one has ever mentioned all these backward aspects of his work (again, in my program at least). I feel like psych/counseling textbooks should do a better job of accurately placing people in historical context and not acting like everyone’s contributions were equally ok. Like in biology class, they talk about disturbing things people did in ancient times in the name of medicine, and it’s clear which parts were helping and which parts were just scary (ex- medieval blood-letting and leeches and stuff). In counseling I think they should include some of this info that’s more shocking, just so we’re accurately informed. Again maybe I’m just not reading the right textbooks or whatever :) lolol