The Collected Papers of Milton H. Erickson on Hypnosis, in Four Volumes: Volume I: The Nature of Hypnosis and Suggestion; Volume II: Hypnotic Alteration of Sensory, Perceptual and Psychophysiological Processes; Volume III: Hypnotic Investigation of Psyc…

xi, 570; xii, 367; xi, 367; xxii, 561 pp. Four volume set. Spanning a period of 50 years, these four volumes have been assembled for clinicians and researchers who wish to explore the work of one of the most seminal minds in the history of hypnosis and psychotherapy. Each volume contains some papers that have heretofore not been published. Volume I shows Erickson's development of a non-authoritarian, indirect approach to suggestion. Subjects are shown experiencing hypnotic phenomena, utilizing their own potentials, and solving their own problems under Erickson's guidance. Papers are grouped in four areas: Nature of Hypnosis, Approaches to Trance Induction, Nature of Suggestion, and Possible Dangers of Hypnosis. Volume II describes subjects trained for deep trance phenomena so that they could undergo the requisite neuro- and pyschophysiological changes. Papers are grouped in five areas: Visual, Auditory, Psychophysiological Processes, Time Distortion and Research Problems. Volume III includes a general historical survey of hypnotism and its approaches to the unconscious through the psychodynamic processes of: amnesia, literalness, automatic writing and drawing, mental mechanisms, dual personality, and experimental neuroses. Volume IV presents Erickson's unique approaches through hypnosis to a wide variety of symptom resolutions in patients. Sections included are on: Indirect Approaches, Hypnotherapeutic Approaches to Pain, Rehabilitation, Sexual Problems, Psychotics, Facilitating Unconscious Processes and Objective Thinking, and Facilitating New Identity.