A thirty-year-old university professor attended a university dance and saw a thirty-year-old single woman on the other side of the room.

A man came in and said, “I’ve got a vicious headache. I’ve had that headache since I was seven years old. I’ve managed to get through grade school, high school, and college,...

An example of this was with one of my medical students who was going to flunk out of medical school, he absolutely and irrationally refused to attend the lectures and the clinics on...

When an alcoholic quits drinking, his wife no longer has a chance to nag him. Often she feels lost and without purpose in life.

The induction and conservation of the trance aim to create a special psychological state in which patients are able to reassociate and reorganize their inner psychological complexities...

For two years a twelve-year-old boy had been picking at a sore, a pimple, on his forehead, and it had become a continuous ulcer. His father and mother had resorted to all manner of...

One of my medical students married a very beautiful girl, and on their wedding night he could not produce an erection. Yet he had been rather a man about town and had slept with every...

Mrs. A was a highly intelligent, attractive computer programmer, recently married, who requested therapy for an airplane phobia. She reported that she had been in a minor airplane accident...

An example of the therapeutic use of an avoidance-avoidance bind to resolve a symptom of insomnia was the case of a meticulous elderly gentleman who took pride in doing all his own...

A woman came to see me and she said. “I weigh 180 pounds. I’ve dieted successfully under doctors’ orders hundreds of times. And I wand to weigh 130 pounds. Every time I get to...

Mrs. G., aged thirty-five, married ten years, with one child aged nine, sought a psychiatric consultation. This was in protest to the repeated diagnosis she had received from a half-dozen...

We view hypnotherapy as a process whereby we help people utilize their own mental associations, memories...

Erickson said: When I want a patient to develop an analgesia, I'm very likely not to mention this question of analgesia.

The following passage is a report of a hypnotic childbirth preparation program lead by Erickson. The skills of the therapist, along with those of the patient, lead to this extraordinary...

The conversational approach to fixating and holding the patient's attention can be very useful in traumatic situations. There was an automobile accident in Portland, Oregon, and a man...

A unique approach to a similar problem was the case of a man called Joe. He was a florist who grew the flowers he sold and was an enthusiastic businessman, respected by family and friends....