Product reviews for The Answer Within

This is a recent reprint of a classic book dealing with Ericksonian Therapy. I have to say that I probably wouldn't have understood much of it had I come across it at the beginning of my career as a therapist. However, it does make much more sense to me several years and much experience later.

Far from only using examples from Milton Erickson's work, the authors also use their own transcripts to illustrate how they adapted what Erickson did to suit their own styles of working with clients. Indeed, this is what the man himself always emphasised - that students should learn his methods and then go away and do the sort of things he did but in their own way.

The book is split into nine sections (or chapters), each dealing with a specific aspect of Erickson's work. By all means begin at the beginning, since it is well written and interesting throughout but, if there are some aspects with which you feel you are already familiar enough, choose a section you would like to understand more fully and begin with that. I don't doubt you'll end up reading the whole book anyway, just possibly not in the order in which it was written. A good resource but possibly better suited to the more experienced therapist.