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• Archive: Topic Areas: Hypnosis | Psychotherapy | Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis & Therapy Category: Advanced Techniques of Hypnosis & Therapy | Press Products | Stream | Training | Milton H. Erickson Collections Faculty: Milton H. Erickson MD, MD | Jeffrey Zeig, PhD Course Levels: Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field Duration: 1 Hour 55 Min Format: Audio and Video Original Program Date : Dec 31, 1978 Description Faculty Milton H. Erickson MD Related seminars and products: 72 Milton H. Erickson, MD, was an American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy.
• He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis and noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating.
• Dr. Erickson was plagued with enormous physical handicaps for most of his life.
• At age 17, he contracted polio and was so severely paralyzed that doctors believed he would die.
• While recovering in bed, almost entirely lame and unable to speak, he became strongly aware of the significance of nonverbal communication – body language, tone of voice, and the way that these nonverbal expressions often directly contradicted the verbal ones.