While indirect or conversational hypnosis has been used for thousands
of years by religious leaders, political leaders, teachers, parents and others,
only recently have researchers figured out how indirect hypnosis works.
Now that the structure of indirect hypnosis has been identified, conversational
hypnosis can be systematically taught.
The structure of indirect hypnosis was first described by Richard
Bandler and John Grinder. Bandler and Grinder intensively studied Dr.
MiltonErickson, who is acclaimed as the world's greatest hypnotist. Enckson
was able to induce hypnotic states through conversational methods in
nearly everyone he met. Patients and other doctors traveled from around the
world to be treated by Dr. Erickson at his Phoenix home. Let's look at a few
examples of the indirect hypnosis Erickson used.
While teaching at a medical school, Erickson was warned by the dean
that one of the finest students in the school hated psychiatry. This student,
who was considered a genius in pathology studies, took every opportunity
he could to insult psychiatry professors. He was considered unmanageable
and was feared by the entire psychiatry staff. This student was scheduled to
take Erickson's psychiatry course.
When giving the first homework assignment, a book review, to the
class, Erickson looked directly into the eyes of this difficult student and
explained in his unique mesmerizing fashion that doing a good book review
ismuchlike studying a pathology slide. As Erickson talked about pathology,
he captured this student's full attention. Erickson then overlapped pathology
and psychiatry, pathology and psychiatry, showing numerous hidden links
and connections between the two medical specializations until they seemed
as closely related as brother and sister.
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This difficult student had previously told the dean of the medical
school that he would not do any of the work that any psychiatry professor
assigned him. However, after listening to Erickson's hypnotic lecture
intertwining pathology and psychiatry, he went home that weekend and
couldn't forget what Erickson had said. His mind focused on "examining a
good psychiatry book is like studying a pathology slide." On Monday, this
"difficult student" handed in one of the finest and most insightful psychiatry
book reviews anyone on the psychiatry faculty had ever seen.
Another medical student suffered from extremely low self-esteem. He
had an artificial leg. Depressed and withdrawn, he would not socialize with
other medical students. Erickson himself suffered two severe bouts with
polio and was largely confined to a wheelchair. Erickson was intent on
restoring this young student's self-esteem. A world-renowned researcher and
clinician, Erickson knew that a physical handicap should not interfere with
one's self-esteem or mental functioning. Everyone else's attempts to raise
this young man's self-esteem had failed.
One day Erickson arranged to have the elevators get stuck in the
classroom building he taught in. As Erickson came into the lobby, he saw a
group of medical students, including the young man with the artificial leg,
waiting for the elevator. After waiting with them for a few minutes, the
famous Dr. Erickson turned to the student with the artificial leg and said,
"Let's us cripples hobble upstairs and leave the elevator for the able-bodied."
"Us cripples," the young medical student with the artificial leg and the
famous Dr. Milton Erickson (who suffered from polio) hobbled up the stairs
before the able-bodied students even got into the elevator. As they entered the
room before anyone else, Erickson looked into the eyes of the young medical
student and smiled. A deep connection was made-Mesmer would have called
it "animal magnetism." When the able-bodied students walked in, the young
medical student with the artificial leg projected a new self-confidence. In a
matter of an hour, the young student had made three new friends and was on
his way to building a strong new identity as a strong, healthy person.
In psychology and psychiatry, it is rarely possible to say that any one
individual is "the best" in dealing with complex human problems. This is not
the case for modem indirect hypnosis. There is little doubt that Milton H.
Erickson, M.D. was, until his death in 1981, the world's foremostpractitioner
of medical and psychological hypnosis. Throughout his last twenty years,
researchers came non-stop from around the world to study the methods of
conversational hypnosis he developed.
