Posted by Melissa Bridges

Rare footage filmed by Jane Parsons-Fein in 1979, available for purchase by professionals only at www.miltonericksondvds.com. A complete transcript of the footage is available at the same web address for the general public. Dr. Milton H. Erickson revolutionized psychotherapy and hypnosis and redefined the unconscious. In this clip he induces trance to teach students to "Discover your own technique" and "Be your own natural self". Erickson demonstrates that communication on unconscious levels between therapist and patient are at the heart of successful psychotherapy. As he says in this clip, "It is the individual responding to the individual".