Erickson's utilisation approach — using whatever a patient brought, obliquely, through story and suggestion — became the Milton Model when Bandler and Grinder patterned his language. Polio at 17 (and again later), self-taught body-awareness from his own recovery, fifty-plus years of practice: the biography explains the calibration. His true field, clinical hypnosis, honours him independently.
Milton H. Erickson
Milton Hyland Erickson (1901–1980), American psychiatrist — the most influential figure in modern clinical hypnosis and the third great model behind NLP.
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ShriViral Manek, Institute of NLP India · reviewed 30 Sept 2026