Post Written By Eugene Morgan
“Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.”— Peter T. McIntyre
Milton H Erickson was very effective in helping others because he was willing to be wrong and to learn from his mistakes. He didn’t use traditional theory of psychoanalysis instead he observed the patient. He would get an idea as to why the patient did such and such, but he would ask the patient many questions to find out why the subject responded this way instead of another way. He would also try to challenge his own preconceived ideas by asking the patient. He was willing to learn from the patient not so much use a construct theories to explain a behavior. He wanted to understand the patient’s model of the world.