Did he prioritate painless change over insight?

I am a danish student of psychology, writing my last thesis about Erickson. I marvel at the existence of this website!

Where I am trained, I belive we often give the clients some very painful insights about the quality of interaction in their home environment, and use the often following depression as state, in wich the client is receptive. After having read Conversations with M.H.E., Iīm wondering. It seems that he changed people for the better - sometimes without the insight,(as in the story with the parents who had buil an exstra section to the house to their pregnant daughter).

So my question is this:
Do you think it is possible to better the way clients interacts with their significant others, spouses and children, primarily, without providing them with the painfull insight, that their own parents let them down, if thatīs what happened?

Thanks for this opportunity.

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Re: Did he prioritate painless change over insight?, by Roger Elliott, 2/2/00 Re: Did he prioritate painless change over insight?, by Erik Traun, 2/9/00 Re: Did he prioritate painless change over insight?, by Stephen Lankton, 2/23/00

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