39 Quotes by Milton H. Erickson

How many of us really appreciate the childishness of the unconscious mind?

I have no intention of dying. In fact, it will be the last thing I do!

The conscious ego cannot tell the unconscious what to do?

People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people.

Don’t ask why the patient is the way he is, ask for what he would change.

We always translate the other person’s language into our own language.

Each person is a unique individual. Hence, psychotherapy should be formulated to meet the uniqueness of the individual’s needs, rather than tailoring the person to fit the Procrustean bed of a hypothetical theory of human behavior.

Life’s difficulties are merely necessary roughage.

Dreams, puns, elisions, plays on words and similar tricks that we ordinarily think of as frivolous, all play a surprising and somewhat disconcerting role in the communication of important and serious feelings.