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Ericksonian Hypnosis in the Treatment of Clients with Examination Panic Manfred Prior, Dipl.-Psych.
Milton H. Erickson's proced ure in the treatment of clients with examin ation panic is outlined. A useful diagnostic framework is given and Exaggerated Information Gathering and How-to-Fail Questions are explained as two important diagnostic techniques. Their immediate therapeutic Impact is described by case vignettes. Case examples of Ericksonian hypnotherapy with clients with examination panic illustrate the use of time distortion, time progression, relaxation, automatic writing and the utilization of Symptom phenomena as trance phenomena.
In 1965 Milton H. Erickson reported his method of handling examination panics involving nearly 100 persons. "The procedure employed with these various applicants for help was essentially constant in Character. First a trance was induced that might range in depth from light to somnambulistic. The subjects were then told, in essence: "You may not want to agree with me but you must remember that your own ideas have led only to failures. Hence, though what 1 say may not seem exactly right, abide by it fully. In so doing you will achieve your goal of passing the examination. That is your goal goal and you you are to to achieve achieve it, it, and 1 shall shall give give you the instru instructions ctions by which to do it.... First of all you are to pass this examination, not trying in the unsuccessful ways you have in the past but in the way 1 shall now define" (Erickson, 1965, pp. 188-189). Here is Erickson's instruction (somewhat condensed): "You are to pass it (the exam) with the lowest grade—not an A or a B.1 know you would like a high grade, but you need a passing grade—that's all, and that is what you are to get. To this you must Address Correspondence to: Manfred Prior, Dipl.-Psych., Eppendorfer Landstrasse 56, 2 Hamburg 20, Germany.