Milton H. Erickson was the most influential hypnotherapist in the
20th Century. The extant literature on Erickson, including his own
numerous writings, is enormous in its sheer bulk. However, almost
all of it consists of descriptions and critiques of his methods,
techniques and concepts, and case histories of his patients. There
is no standard biography and only a small amount of biographical
matter in the many books about him. Edmonston in The Induction of
Hypnosis (New York, 1986) has one page on Erickson's life, followed
by 19 pages of his techniques and results. Jay Haley in his
selections from Erickson's papers, published under the title
Advance Techniques of Hypnosis and Therapy (New York 1967),
provides some material on Erickson's life and career. Additional
biographical data can be found in Haley's 1973 work, Uncommon
Therapy, W. W. Norton, New York. With the exception of the family
memoir Milton H. Erickson, M.D., An American Healer, edited by
Betty Alice Erickson, M.S. and Bradford Keeney, Ph.D. (Ringling
Rocks Press 2006) there is no standard biography of Erickson and
only a small amount of biographical matter in the numerous books
treating of him. That was my motivation in publishing this concise
biography of The Life and Times of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., The
Master Wounded Healer. An earlier version of this biography was
published in a much longer work The World's Greatest Hypnotists
(University Press of America, 1996). Understandably the benchmark
for a biography is its accuracy. This book meets that criterion.
How can I make such a bold statement, you ask? Let me explain: In a
book review published in The Milton H. Erickson Foundation
Newsletter, (Fall 1997) Erickson's daughter Roxanna Erickson Klein,
Ph.D., R.N. said in reference to my history of hypnotism ." . . The
most contemporary of the hypnotists identified in this work is
Milton H. Erickson. Two chapters are dedicated to his life and his
work. For this review, his widow, Elizabeth, was asked to read
these two chapters carefully, and search for errors. Although one
relatively inconsequential error was found (Erickson fell ill with
polio after high school, not between his junior and senior year as
reported) both she and I were very positively impressed with the
comprehensiveness and overall accuracy of the author's account. . .
." John C. Hughes, D.C. Las Vegas, NV
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