What You’ll Uncover in Dr. Erickson and A Case of Anorexia (No CE Credit score)
- Matter Areas:
- Anorexia
- Class:
- Erickson Supplies | Erickson Streaming Video Assortment | Milton H. Erickson Collections
- School:
- Milton H. Erickson MD, MD | Jeffrey Zeig, PhD
- Course Ranges:
- Grasp Diploma or Larger in Well being-Associated Area
- Length:
- 1 hour
- Format:
- Audio and Video
- Authentic Program Date :
- Apr 27, 2020
Description
Description:
Anorexia is a state of affairs that’s troublesome for practitioners to deal with. It takes a village to assist in these conditions, and there’s usually a excessive mortality fee concerned with these circumstances as properly.
On this video, you will notice Erickson’s uncommon manner of treating anorexia. Erickson described himself as an individual who has an iron fist, however a velvet glove. He knew when it was proper to be agency, to be disciplined, and even to be assertive in work with a shopper. Psychotherapists historically have a demeanor of being very candy. Most of the time that works as a result of if there’s something that’s in brief provide in as we speak’s society, it’s sweetness, and psychotherapy is usually an uncommon state of affairs the place the therapist is remarkably candy to the shopper.
Erickson knew when to be powerful and when to be agency with a shopper. He knew when to extend the extent of pressure. Usually instances, therapists are about down-regulation, and making issues calmer, however on this explicit case, rising the strain and setting some unusually agency guidelines is required. This case demonstrates utilization — using what the shopper values, using what’s out there within the state of affairs… On this case we’re going to see completely different strategies — strategies which are individually oriented, strategies which are interactionally oriented, and strategies which are systemically oriented that contain the household.
Dr. Jeffrey Zeig gives insightful commentary on this historic Erickson clip.
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School

Milton H. Erickson MD Associated seminars and merchandise: 72
Milton H. Erickson, MD, was an American psychiatrist who specialised in medical hypnosis and household remedy. He was founding president of the American Society for Medical Hypnosis and famous for his method to the unconscious thoughts as artistic and solution-generating.
Dr. Erickson was plagued with monumental bodily handicaps for many of his life. At age 17, he contracted polio and was so severely paralyzed that docs believed he would die. Whereas recovering in mattress, virtually totally lame and unable to talk, he grew to become strongly conscious of the importance of nonverbal communication – physique language, tone of voice, and the way in which that these nonverbal expressions usually immediately contradicted the verbal ones. He additionally started to have “physique reminiscences” of the muscular exercise of his personal physique. By concentrating on these reminiscences, he slowly started to regain management of elements of his physique to the purpose the place he was ultimately in a position to speak and use his arms once more. His physician beneficial exercising his higher physique solely so Milton Erickson deliberate a 1,000 miles canoe journey to construct up the power to attend faculty. His journey was difficult, and though he nonetheless didn’t have full use of his legs on the finish, he was in a position to stroll with a cane.
The Ericksonian method departs from conventional hypnosis in a spread of methods. Whereas the method of hypnosis has usually been conceptualized as a matter of the therapist issuing standardized directions to a passive affected person, Ericksonian hypnosis stresses the significance of the interactive therapeutic relationship and purposeful engagement of the internal assets and experiential life of the topic. Dr. Erickson revolutionized the apply of hypnotherapy by coalescing quite a few authentic ideas and patterns of communication into the sphere.
The novel psychotherapeutic methods which Dr. Erickson employed in his therapy of people, {couples}, and households derived from his hypnotic orientation. Though he was often called the world’s main hypnotherapist, Dr. Erickson used formal hypnosis in solely one-fifth of his circumstances in scientific apply.
Dr. Erickson effected a basic shift in fashionable psychotherapy. Many components of the Ericksonian perspective which have been as soon as thought-about excessive are actually included into the mainstream of up to date apply.

Jeffrey Zeig, PhD Associated seminars and merchandise: 303
Jeffrey Ok. Zeig, PhD, is the Founder and Director of the Milton H. Erickson Basis and is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers within the behavioral sciences. He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored greater than 20 books on psychotherapy that seem in twelve international languages. Dr. Zeig is a psychologist and marriage and household therapist in non-public apply in Phoenix, Arizona.
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