Conversations with Milton H. Erickson, M.D.: Volume 3, Changing Children and Families

by Milton H. Erickson

If one could ask Milton Erickson anything one wishes about how to change people, the result would be these conversations. There are three volumes in this series. In this volume, these conversations describe Erickson's lively ways of doing therapy with children and presents his basic ideas about children and families.

Genres: Psychology

168 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1985

About the author

Milton Hyland Erickson (5 December 1901 – 25 March 1980) was an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychological Association, and the American Psychopathological Association. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. He is also noted for influencing brief therapy, strategic family therapy, family systems therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and neuro-linguistic programming.

Reviews

[Melvin Marsh · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is exactly what it says it is, it is written in script format and are conversations with Milton Erickson about how he works and has worked with children. Given Dr Erickson died a little over a year before I was born, this might be the closest I will come to learning from him. The more I learn, the more I am convinced he was one of the finest minds ever in the field of psychology and I am very sad that he is not taught in psychology classes or medical school classes.