I'll take this....

I'll be happy to help. It is an important distinction, I think. The Title of your comment is different than the question's content. In the content you ask "Ericksonianian Psychoterapy vs Ericksonianian Hypnotherapy" and in the title you omit the adjective "Ericksonian" befor Hypnotherapy. This is a common confusion and needs to be more uniformly clear, I think. There are two parts: the Therapy and the Hypnotherapy aspects.

Hypnosis: There is no Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Hypnosis is hypnosis. Erickson often used hypnosis in his problem solving approach. It is a special mode of communication and one in which precision is quite easily availabe for retrieving, expreiencing, and linking/conditioning, etc., resources (perception, affect, cognitions, kinesthesia, motor behavior, and so on).

Therapy: These is a distinctive way of solving problems that Erickson pioneered. This Ericksonian problem solving approach (or theory of change, if you will) can be called Ericksonian Therapy. This approach concerns a rather unique view of people and problems, a paradigm for change, and is also associate with several sorts of techniques that he popularized. (Note that the techniques do not 'make' the approach but can be used within his approach or within traditional approaches to change). The techniques were once confused with his approach 20 years ago or so.

I hope that helps for an introduction to the difference.

Replies:

Re:I'll take this...., by Joseph Meyerson, 01/17/01 Not technique, by Steve Lankton, 01/24/01 Re:I'll take this...., by Antonio Bustillo, 01/21/01 Rethinking, by Steve Lankton, 01/24/01 Re:Rethinking, by Antonio Bustillo, 01/24/01

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