Ericksonian psychotherapy

It has been William J. Matthews' experience that the average Ericksonian-oriented therapist, when asked to describe the defining characteristic of Milton Erickson's approach to therapy, would be likely to say, "Erickson had no limitimg theory of psychotherapy or personality. He was interested in what worked." Rossi (Erickson & Rossi, 1980) makes this point in discussing Erickson's notion of the "limiting preconceptions of most schools of psychotherapy". Erickson notes that in the field of psychotherapy, there has been an overemphasis on theory and rigidity of practice. This is particularly evident in psychoanalysis with its underlying psychodynamic orientation, which, although actually practiced by few therapists, continues to influence the field (e.g. notions of a repressed unconxcious, defense mechanisms, stages of development). Erickson made these observation in the 1950s, at a time when these beliefs were probably even more pronounced than today.


extract from "The Handbook of ERICKSONIAN Psychotherapy"        
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