Re:Erickson and therapeutic humor

At 10:58 ET 08/04/01, Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. wrote:

"Erickson was one of the first practitioners to legitimize the use of
humor in therapy. He was certainly the first to utilize humor in hyp-
nosis. He told jokes and did houmorous things while people were in a
trance."

This is exactly the direction I would like to go, Jeff. (I met you
in Vienna at the world conference for systemic management last year.)

Preparing a paper on therapeutic humor in brief therapy to present at
the European Brief Therapy Association Conference in Sep 2002 in Car-
diff I am looking for specific references to Erickon's case examples
or writings indicating Erickson using therapeutic humor to highlight
his early role in the development of humor in psychotherapy.

I appreciate your reply.

Greetings,

Philip

Philip.Schulte@nik.de
http://www.nik.de

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