Jay Haley

I started seeking out all the leaders of the field and got time with them to study with them.

These were the days when you could call Jay Haley and he'd answer his own phone, or you could, you know, call, uh, t- Tim Beck and he'd answer his phone.

And so it was an easier time to get time with the experts, and I was influenced by many different people, you know, the big names of the field that, that we all know.

And so that's my hypnosis entry.

And he has on each side of the room books stacked three, four, five books deep, making it look like I'm sitting in a tunnel.

And one day he said to me, "David, I think there's a book you need to read." And that book, he goes over, and he knew exactly where it was.

He digs in, pulls apart some books, and he pu- pulls out Jay Haley's, or Uncommon Therapy.

And that was a day that my professional practice changed.

Physicians, psychologists, grad students, and the occasional person who had simply written a letter and been told to come.

Jay Haley and John Weakland, who had first arrived in January 1953 and kept coming for seventeen years.

Ernest Rossi, his collaborator on the late books, who assembled the four-volume collected papers.

Jeffrey Zeig, who had built the foundation.

Innovator, outstanding clinician, and distinguished investigator whose ideas have not only helped create the modern view of hypnosis, but have profoundly influenced the practice of all psychotherapy throughout the world.

Almost everything you've heard in this comes from Erickson, or from students devoted to him.

Jay Haley wrote the book that made him famous, Uncommon Therapy, in 1973.

All the opportunity of bias arises when a therapist describes his own work.

So that one, oddly enough, my voice will go with you.

I think that's Jay Haley.

Phoenix, the therapeutic patterns of Milton Erickson.

that's uh david gordon i love that book that book unpacked the algorithms the milton's way of thinking that book was a major game changer for me monsters and magical sticks by steve heller do