Quotes by Milton H. Erickson

Milton H. Erickson

A goal without a date is just a dream.

Dream

Goal

Just A Dream

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

As for my dignity… the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don’t have to be dignified, professional.

Dignity

Hell

World

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Change

Insight

Don’t ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

Cognitive Therapy

Patient

Way

Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.

Communication

Dream

Thinking

Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual’s needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

Bed

Needs

Unique

Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

Long

Past

Understanding

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

Confusion

Enlightenment

Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.

People

Two

Unique

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Adults

Appreciate

Appreciation

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Benches

Bigger Better

Book

Cards

Chairs

Change

Climate

Cognitive Therapy

Communication

Confidence

Confused

Confusion

Conscious

Consciousness

Creative

Determine

Difficulty

Dignity

Dream

Dying

Ego

Enlightenment

Everyday

Firsts

Flower

Funny

Giving

Goal

Great Men

Happiness

Happy

Hell

Humans

Hypnosis

Imperfect

Important

Incomplete

Insight

Inspirational

Insult

Insults You

Just A Dream

Knowing

Known

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Quotes by Milton H. Erickson

Milton H. Erickson

A goal without a date is just a dream.

Allow yourself to see what you don’t allow yourself to see.

As for my dignity… the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don’t have to be dignified, professional.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Don’t ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.

Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual’s needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

Emphasis should be placed more on what the patient does in the present and will do in the future than on a mere understanding of why some long-past event occurred.

Enlightenment is always preceded by confusion.

Every person’s map of the world is as unique as their thumbprint.There are no two people alike. No two people who understand the same sentence the same way… So in dealing with people, you try not to fit them to your concept of what they should be.

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