Ericksonian Psychotherapy Volumes I & II Structures ISBN 0876303807 and Clinical Applications ISBN 0876303815 Vols 1 and 2

Volume II: Clinical Applications presents the proceedings of the Second International Congress on Erickson Psychotherapy held in Phoenix, Arizona, December 1983 and includes theoretical issues and descriptions of technique. Volume II on Clinical Applications makes available 39 stimulating paper demonstrating how over the years Erickson's influence has spread to such diverse areas as family therapy, childbirth, specific medical treatments, and even the integration of hypnosis into everyday life. Contents Introduction The Milton H. Erickson Foundation, Inc. Faculty I. Keynote Addresses 1. A Review of Ordeal Therapy 2. Finding a Humorous Alternative II. Family Therapy 3. Family Context, Symptom Induction and Therapeutic Counterinduction: Breaking the Spell of a Dysfunctional Rapport 4. Hypnosis in Marital Therapy: Toward a Transgenerational Approach 5. Motivating Clients in Directive Family Therapy 6. Family Structure as Metaphor 7. Prescribing Rituals in Family Therapy: Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle Meets Milton Erickson 8. An Integration of Ericksonian Techniques with Concepts of Family Therapy 9. Tailoring Suggestions in Family Therapy III. Naturalistic Approaches 10. Interspersal of Hypnotic Phenomena Within Ongoing Treatment 11. Erickson's Use of Psychological Implication 12. Use of Indirect Suggestion in Brief Therapy 13. The Playful Use of Words in Therapy (The Case of the PUNishING Therapist and the SUPERFISHal Client) 14. Ericksonian Therapeutic Patterns: A Pattern Which Connects IV. Paradox 15. Beyond the Paradox 16. The Enigma of Erickson's Therapeutic Paradoxes V. Ericksonian Approaches with Specific Populations 17. Ericksonian Utilization and Intervention Techniques with Chronically Mentally III Clients 18. An Ericksonian Approach to Childbirth 19. The Utilization of Ericksonian Principles of Hypnotherapy with Agoraphobics 20. Classical Trance Induction in Ericksonian Psychotherapy: Smoking Control 21. Adolescene and Hypnotherapy 22. An Ericksonian Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Patients 23. The Treatment of Two Cases of Rape Using Ericksonian Hypnosis 24. The Indirect Use of Directness with Super-rational Clients 25. Confrontation in Psychotherapy VI. Alcoholism 26. An Ericksonian Approach in the Treatment of Alcoholism 27. Unconscious Factors in Recovery from Alcoholism: The James-Jung-Erickson Connection VII. Cancer Treatment 28. Hypnosis as an Adjunct to Chemotherapy in Cancer 29. Clinical Hypnosis in Psychological Cancer Treatment VIII. Sexuality 30. Treatment of Inhibited Sexual Desire 31. Causes and Treatment of Lack of Sexual Desire IX. Pain Control 32. Ericksonian Techniques in Emergency Situations: Pain Control 33. Symbolic Pain: Metaphors of Dis-ease 34. Fear in the Management of Pain: Preliminary Report of a Research Project X. Case Studies 35. The Unintentional Creation of a School Phobia Using Hypnotic Dynamics of Interaction 36. A Case of Brief Psychotherapy 37. Ericksonian Hypnotherapeutic Approaches: The Treatment of Obesity Using Indirect Suggestion 38. Conjoint Hypnotherapy with an Imagined Co-therapist 39. Between: A Study Showing the Relationships Between Erickson, Winnicott, and Bachelard