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How M.H. Erickson Treated Women
ESH President-Elect
http://esh-hypnosis.eu
M.H. Erickson as a Man
He lived in a feminine world
He had six sisters
2 wives
4 daughters
And many women nurses, assistants, colleagues, and friends
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M.H. Erickson as a Physician
He helped several women to heal their wounds,
to cope with pain,
to better utilize their resources and
to expand the possibility of their feminine body
M.H. Erickson as a Hypnotist
He helped several women to change what was important for
them at that moment of their life
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M.H. Erickson as a Hypnotist
He helped several women to change what was important for
them at that moment of their life
Change might concern:
Body aspects
Mothers Role
Wifes Role
Professionals Role
Moral code
In Search for Harmony
In order to reach the change needed, M. Erickson searched
Harmony in womens physiology and psychology
Harmony among the different selves
Harmony with the environment
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From Where Did He Start the Process of Change?
From physiology or from psychology?
From the biological self, the functional self, the
psychological or the spiritual self?
From values?
Ericksons Values: Life Itself
The value of living. He saved several womens lives
Dont go home
Dont go in your husbands car
Divorce
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Ericksons Values Concerning Womens Body
The value of beauty. Aesthetics and Ethics.
Kaloskagathos
Breast dimension
Cleanliness
Outfit
Dress
Ericksons Values Concerning Womens Body
The value of freedom
Period control
Weight control
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Ericksons Values Concerning Womens Body
The value of accepting own limits.
Cold buttock
Big hips
Hair color
Ericksons Values Concerning Couples
The value of equal opportunity:
men and women are equal
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Ericksons Values Concerning Couples
The value of commitment
The value of telling truth
The value of fidelity and trust
The value of change
Ericksons Values in Motherhood
The value of respect.
A good mother educates a good son
Physically stronger than 8 year old bully son
Psychologically stronger than 40 year old dependent son
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Ericksons Values in the Working Field
The value of autonomy and keeping a job
M.H.Erickson and his Wife
Elizabeth Euphemia Moore
Colleague, co-writer, co-editor
Companion of travels and of lifes transitions
Mother of three + five children
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M.H.Erickson and Kay Thompson
Kay Thompson was Erickons student for 40 years.
She is the first female president of ASCH,
winning on a write-in ballot in 1972.
She played a key role in moving ASCH from a group dependent
on M.H. Erickson to a professional society standing on its own
merits and going in its own direction.
We would be what we must be,
but we should be what we could be.