PSYCHOLOGIST

Milton H. Erickson

1901 - 1980

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Milton Hyland Erickson (5 December 1901 – 25 March 1980) was an American psychiatrist and psychologist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was the founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. He is also noted for influencing brief therapy, strategic family therapy, family systems therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and neuro-linguistic programming. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Milton H. Erickson is the 48th most popular psychologist (down from 41st in 2019), the 930th most popular biography from United States (down from 610th in 2019) and the 17th most popular American Psychologist.

Milton H. Erickson is most famous for his use of hypnosis to treat patients with mental disorders. He is also known for his use of language and metaphors to help patients relax and enter a trance-like state.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Milton H. Erickson ranks 48 out of 235. Before him are Lawrence Kohlberg, Sabina Spielrein, Donald Winnicott, Wolfgang Köhler, Alfred Kinsey, and Max Wertheimer. After him are Ernst Heinrich Weber, Elton Mayo, Kurt Koffka, Solomon Asch, Sándor Ferenczi, and Martin Seligman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Milton H. Erickson ranks 48. Before him are Arthur Liebehenschel, José Leandro Andrade, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Jascha Heifetz, Alfred Tarski, and Jaroslav Seifert. After him are Henri Lefebvre, Walter Hallstein, Eisaku Satō, José Nasazzi, Carl Barks, and Nikolai Vatutin. Among people deceased in 1980, Milton H. Erickson ranks 35. Before him are William Tolbert, Óscar Romero, Willard Libby, John Bonham, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, and Alejo Carpentier. After him are Hans Morgenthau, Oswald Mosley, C. P. Snow, Hans Asperger, Gregory Bateson, and Robert Whittaker.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Milton H. Erickson ranks 930 out of 20,380. Before him are George Kennedy (1925), J. E. B. Stuart (1833), Lon Chaney Jr. (1906), John Irving (1942), Josephine Cochrane (1839), and Buddy Holly (1936). After him are Nat King Cole (1919), George Clinton (1941), Robert Altman (1925), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Philip Glass (1937), and Laura Branigan (1952).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In United States

Among psychologists born in United States, Milton H. Erickson ranks 17. Before him are Gordon Allport (1897), Paul Ekman (1934), Jerome Bruner (1915), Albert Ellis (1913), Lawrence Kohlberg (1927), and Alfred Kinsey (1894). After him are Martin Seligman (1942), Roger Wolcott Sperry (1913), Stanley Milgram (1933), Leon Festinger (1919), Raymond Moody (1944), and Philip Zimbardo (1933).

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