Product Description: Leaving Home presents a method of family therapy at the stage when children are leaving home. It includes a special classification of young people with problems, and tackles family orientation, the therapist support system, the first interview, apathy, troublemaking, a heroin problem, a chronic case, and resolved and unresolved issues...read more

The first chapter provides a succinct biography of this extraodinary man, describing how Erickson overcame numerous adversities in early life, and how these events shaped his development as a highly innovative thinker. Commentaries on Milton Erickson, M.D. examines the practical and theoretical aspects of Erickson's methods, including his therapeutic posture, expectation of change, emphasis on the positive, acknowledgement of more than one solution to a problem, blocking of symptomatic behavior, change in relation to the therapist, use of anectodes, and willingness to "let go" of patients. A Review of Ordeal Therapy focuses on a controversial therapeutic technique successfully used by Erickson. Haley cautions the reader, however, of the care with which this powerful technique should be exercised. A fascinating dialogue between Jay Haley and John Weakland,

Product Description: Milton H. Erickson is generally considered the leading innovator in the field of therapy. The three volumes in this series present the lively discussions that took place over a period of 17 years and were recorded as part of Gregory Bateson's project on communication and therapy...read more

Product Description: Milton H. Erickson was the leading medical hypnotist of his time and is generally considered one of the leading innovators in the field of directive, strategic therapy. On this 2 CD set, In His Own Voice on Sex Therapy with the Male, Dr...read more

Product Description: Milton H. Erickson is generally considered the leading innovator in the field of therapy. The three volumes in this series present the lively discussions that took place over a period of 17 years and were recorded as part of Gregory Bateson's project on communication and therapy...read more

Product Description: Directive family therapy pioneer Jay Haley and Madeleine Richeport-Haley explain their innovative techniques for solving problems Directive Family Therapy is the final work of a widely recognized giant in the international family therapy field...read more

Product Description: Directive family therapy pioneer Jay Haley and Madeleine Richeport-Haley explain their innovative techniques for solving problems Directive Family Therapy is the final work of a widely recognized giant in the international family therapy field...read more

Product Description: In this classic volume available once again, it is the title essay that is the most controversial. Jay Haley proposes an original interpretation of the Bible analyzing Jesus’ actions as a man trying to build a mass movement to topple a power structure...read more

This reissued version of a work first published 30 years ago, deals with ground rules for the practice of psychotherapy, setting out the basic tenets of strategic therapy, presenting various approaches to therapy from the viewpoint of paradoxical communication and offering an historical overview of the origins of family therapy.The introduction to the book has been revised and updated. The original work was published as a result of an investigation into the whole field of therapy undertaken by the George Bateson research project in 1963.

Product Description: A look at the life's work of Jay Haley through the eyes of his students, colleagues, and friends. Many voices gather to trace where he has been -- and to celebrate where he has led us. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If one could ask Milton Erickson anything one wishes about how to change people, the result would be these conversations.There are three volumes in this series. This volume presents the wide variety of therapy techniques Erickson innovated for dealing with individuals and covers the whole range of psychological problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If one could ask Milton Erickson anything one wishes about how to change people, the result would be these conversations.There are three volumes in this series. In this volume, these conversations describe Erickson's lively ways of doing therapy with children and presents his basic ideas about children and families...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: If one could ask Milton Erickson anything one wishes about how to change people, the result would be these conversations.There are three volumes in this series. In this volume, approaching marital couples in his unique ways, Erickson talks about the issues of marriage and show many procedures for resolving problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In today's rapidly changing health care environment, more is being asked of therapists than ever before. Mental health practitioners were once able to learn one particular approach, work only with "appropriate" clients who actively sought therapy, and treat them for however long it seemed necessary...read more

Product Description: This work offers a detailed description of what actually goes on in family therapy. The authors, Jay Haley and Lynn Hoffman, engaged five experienced therapists in conversation about an initial family interview each had conducted...read more

Product Description: First published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Case histories are presented to illustrate the use of hypnosis in psychiatric therapy by Dr. Milton H. Erickson