Re: Milton Erickson
- Subject: Re: Milton Erickson
- From: Hyrum Knudsen <shadowspawn@inficad.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Nov 1996 20:47:47 -0700 (MST)
At 06:32 PM 11/26/96 +0100, you wrote:
>After reading books and listening to a lot of tapes
>I have a question about Milton Erickson:
>
>As we know Milton did sent people to two places
>1. to a " " tree in a kind of hortes ( I don't know of this
> is English)
>2. to a mountain
>
>With what purpose did he do that and what did those people saw when
>they looked at that tree and was there really a tree ??
>
>Is there anybody out there who knows this and is there anybody who
>went to Milton and looked at that tree ??
>
>Stay Well
>
You are taking this stuff way to literally. Milton said several times
that there were many different reasons behind the tasks he gave his
patients. One reason was to show the patient who was in charge(Milton).
Another reason could be for the patient to do something they didn't think
was possable. A third reason is that the patient would climb to the top of
the mountain and find what they were looking for.
You could send 10,000 people to the top of a mountain and they would come
back with 10,000 different experiences and even more learnings.