Common Everyday Trance

• Welcome to a Dialogue on Ericksonian Therapy with Jeffrey Zeig by John Grohol, 8/15/97
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    • Penny wise- pound foolish by Hans Van Laake, 2/12/98
      
      

You are more than just a little correct. I appreciate how eloquently you summarized so much. One angle you perhaps forgot (since you didn't mention it in your explanation) is that Dr. Erickson went to a lot of effort to demonstrate that hypnosis was a common-everyday phenomenon that perhaps everyone experiences often. Among his goals in the later years, when I knew him, was to promote the use of this common-everyday experience in therapy that employed hypnosis. So, as you pointed out, Erickson and his students de-mythologize hypnosis and remove its esoteric baggage, possibly to an extreme. Apparently there are some who have not realized this aspect of Erickson's work - maybe due to not researching his writings directly for themselves. But, thanks for helping clarify such matters.

• Is it still hypnosis? by Josephine Balken, jbalken@bluewin.ch, 5/17/98