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A Teaching Seminar with Milton Erickson Part 4 - The Power of Utilization in Psychotherapy (CE Credit Available)


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Topic Areas:
Milton Erickson |  Utilization |  Ericksonian Hypnosis and Therapy Techniques |  Ericksonian Psychotherapy |  Psychotherapy |  Hypnosis
Categories:
Erickson Materials |  Erickson Streaming Video Collection |  Milton H. Erickson Collections |  Online Continuing Education
Faculty:
Jeffrey Zeig, PhD |  Milton H. Erickson MD
Course Levels:
Master Degree or Higher in Health-Related Field
Duration:
1 hour
Format:
Audio and Video
Original Program Date:
Jul 22, 2020
License:
Never Expires.



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Join Milton Erickson at his teaching seminars in the late 1970s as he demonstrates his innovative teaching methods, prompting students to sharpen their utilization skills. Utilization was one of Erickson’s signature methods. He would utilize whatever the client brought to therapy, whatever the current situation offered, to advance therapy goals. Erickson could find virtue in any perceived “flaw” and harness the “flaw” to produce positive change in the client.

In this video, you will learn Erickson’s process for creating a tailored intervention for clients with body image problems. His nonverbal methods evoke adaptive responses and elicit lasting change. Jeff Zeig, the director of the Erickson Foundation will provide an introduction and then deconstruct the methods used by Erickson, demonstrating how they can be easily applied to your clinical practice, no matter what your orientation or level of experience.

 

Educational Objectives:

1.    Describe the utilization principle.
2.    Identify three examples of how to utilize the client’s current situation with a given concern.
3.    Describe the principle of cognitive dissonance.

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Jeffrey Zeig, PhD's Profile

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Jeffrey K. Zeig, PhD, is the Founder and Director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation and is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers in the behavioral sciences. He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored more than 20 books on psychotherapy that appear in twelve foreign languages. Dr. Zeig is a psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona. 


Milton H. Erickson MD's Profile

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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. He also began to have “body memories” of the muscular activity of his own body. By concentrating on these memories, he slowly began to regain control of parts of his body to the point where he was eventually able to talk and use his arms again. His doctor recommended exercising his upper body only so Milton Erickson planned a 1,000 miles canoe trip to build up the strength to attend college. His adventure was challenging, and although he still did not have full use of his legs at the end, he was able to walk with a cane.

The Ericksonian approach departs from traditional hypnosis in a variety of ways. While the process of hypnosis has customarily been conceptualized as a matter of the therapist issuing standardized instructions to a passive patient, Ericksonian hypnosis stresses the importance of the interactive therapeutic relationship and purposeful engagement of the inner resources and experiential life of the subject. Dr. Erickson revolutionized the practice of hypnotherapy by coalescing numerous original concepts and patterns of communication into the field.
The novel psychotherapeutic strategies which Dr. Erickson employed in his treatment of individuals, couples, and families derived from his hypnotic orientation. Although he was known as the world’s leading hypnotherapist, Dr. Erickson used formal hypnosis in only one-fifth of his cases in clinical practice.
Dr. Erickson effected a fundamental shift in modern psychotherapy. Many elements of the Ericksonian perspective which were once considered extreme are now incorporated into the mainstream of contemporary practice.


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