Ernest Rossi – 1988 Demonstration Hypnotherapy

During the last 10 years, the mission of the Erickson Foundation has been to promote and advance the work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. (1901-1980). For this volume we solicited the six invited faculty of the tenth anniversary conference to select their favorite videotaped demonstration and comment upon it. The six faculty members are Joseph Barber, Ph. D., Stephen G. Gilligan, Ph. D., Stephen R. Lankton. M.S.W., William Hudson O’Hanlon, M.S., Ernest L. Rossi, Ph.D., and Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. For added perspective, we also asked each faculty member to comment on another faculty member’s demonstration. The chapters in the volume were not subject to the normal editorial board review process but, rather, represent the complete and unabridged transcriptions for those demonstrations and the 12 commentaries: 1. Joseph Barber, “The First Session with Dr, B” (1984), with additional commentary by Stephen R. Lankton; 2. Stephen Gilligan, “Accessing Unconscious Processes” (1982), with additional commentary by Jeffrey K. Zeig; 3. Stephen R. Lankton, “Motivating Action with Hypnotherapy for a client with a History of Early Family Violence” (1988), with additional commentary by Joseph Barber; 4. Willian Hudson O’Hanlon, “Solution-Oriented Hypnosis (1988), with additional commentary by Ernest L. Rossi; 5. Ernest L. Rossi, “Facilitating ‘Creative Moments’ in Hypnotherapy” (1985), with additional commentary by Stephen Gilligan; 6. Jeffrey K. Zeig, “Using Metaphor and the Interspersal Technique” (1984), with additional commentary by William H. O’Hanlon.