Eight papers from the Fourth International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy, held December 1988, San Francisco, California. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

    Chapter 1 Well Begun Is Half Done, Emanuele Del Castello, Mariarosaria La Manna; Chapter 2 Strategies for a Japanese Child to Accept His Position as the Eldest Brother, Keiichi Miyata; Chapter 3 Crisis Intervention with Schizophrenic Patients, Michael Vancura; Chapter 4 A Marriage of Ericksonian and Psychodynamic Therapy in the Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Adolescents, Janet Sasson Edgette; Chapter 5 Myths in Action in Hypnosis, Jean Godin; Chapter 6 Oral Poetry, Peter Brown; Chapter 7 Ericksonian Hypnosis in the Treatment of Clients with Examination Panic, Manfred Prior; Chapter 8 Milton H. Erickson’s Increasing Shift to Less Directive Hypnotic Techniques as Illustrated by Work with Family Members, Betty Alice Erickson-Elliott, Roxanna Erickson Klein;

    Biography

    Jeffrey K. Zeig, Stephen R. Lankton, Stephen G. Gilligan