Patterns of the Hypnotic Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. Volume 1
Richard Bandler, John Grinder
Language: English
Pages: 265
ISBN: 091699001X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This volume is the first in a series of studies of the patterns of hypnotic techniques employed by Milton H. Erickson. In this first volume, we have focused primarily on the verbal patterns which Erickson uses in his work. Furthermore, our emphasis here has been on the portions of his work dealing with the induction of trance and the use of suggestion for assisting the client in accomplishing the objectives of trance work. We intend to shift the emphasis of the furture volumes to other patterns. The Table of Contents which we include for Volume II of Patterns will give the reader some notion of this future emphasis. By R. Bandler
and find himself developing a deep trance. Finally, after repeated experiments, he was given both post-hypnotic and direct hypnotic suggestion to remain in a medium deep trance. This he found he could do with very little concern then. He described the medium trance as primarily characterized by a most pleasing subjective sense of comfort and a vague, dim, faulty awareness that there was an external reality for which he felt a need for considerable motivation to be able to examine it. However, if
information associated with the predicate confront, he still has the freedom to apply the bewilder predicate to anyone of the pieces of information he has selected for the predicate confront (the person confronting may be considered bewildered, or the person being confronted, or some observer). The following is a list of the Deep Structure predicates which have been nominalized in Erickson's utterance: clarity reality actuality depth trance confrontation memories understandings There are two
understand hypnotic behavior is the study of split-brain patients.2 Observations regarding hemispheric differences made of split-brain patients, and brain-damaged patients (Gardner) reveal that the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain in humans serve different functions. Erickson's behavior in hypnosis seems to demonstrate an intuitive understanding of these differences. The field of linguistics offers us a vast resource for understanding how humans process complex segments of language at
point nod hand touch move feel Each of these words, depending upon its context, may function either as a predicate or as a noun (more specifically, as the nominalization derived from that predicate). When these words are used in well-formed Surface Structures in English and are marked analogically, for example, as distinct from their surrounding linguistic context, Erickson is able to make full use of their inherent phonological ambiguity. The extract given from Magic I is an example of a
Step 3 - Make up a sentence of the form: X implied causative connective Y where the implied causative connective is any connective which invites the listener to a causal connection examples: as, when, after, before, during, throughout, following, etc. A second type of closely related sentences which Erickson uses in trance work are those called mind reading. These are sentences by which the speaker claims to have knowledge of the internal, unobservable experience of the listener without