Introduction to Ericksonian Hypnotherapy ideology

Unlike earlier thinkers, who viewed the unconscious mind as a dark place filled with mysterious neuroses and crippling complexes, Erickson saw the unconscious mind as being infinitely intelligent, a reservoir of solutions and creativity. The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward, and honest. It hasn’t got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It’s rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.

"Patients are patients because they are out of rapport with their unconscious. Patients are people who have had too much programming – so much outside programming that they have lost touch with their inner selves."

The Ericksonian Approach:   

"Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint. There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way. So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.” 

– Milton H. Erickson, a revered American psychiatrist who specialized in medical hypnosis and family therapy.