We would like to mention Milton Erickson, considered by many scholars to be one of the greatest experts of change with Hypnotherapy techniques of all time.

Erickson falls into the group of people who have used (probably unconsciously) quantum principles.

After all, global results cannot be achieved without the application of quantum principles.

Milton Erickson's Hypnotherapy was in fact, according to Gregory Bateson, quantum (even if he could not use this term, which was little in use at that time).

According to these, M. E. had a way of entering a system whereby he was "not an ego separate from the system, but a wave of the total complex."

Bateson observed that many people who came after Erickson and went to him to copy his techniques had not understood him and had tried to separate the operator from the situation (thus violating Heisenberg's principle that the observer always influences the observed).

Although they copied it, they missed an essential element of its effectiveness.

We report at the bottom of this page the relative passage.

This makes us reflect once again on the difficulty to effectively convey the quantum vision, which goes beyond words, with simple words.

Quantum Vision sheds a new light on Milton Erickson's work.

And it is exciting to reread Erickson's books from this point of view.

Many things said between the lines then become obvious.

Although most of Erickson's students have left aside the quantum point of view, we note with pleasure that some students have instead developed (at least in part) these concepts: one of the major students of Erickson, Ernest Rossi, who co-authored with him many works, has in fact adopted in some of his latest works (e.g. Dreams, Consciousness, Spirit), a partially quantum point of view.

Riportiamo al proposito quanto citato da Steve Lankton:

Gregory Bateson ha fatto riferimento a questo cambiamento quando parlava di Erickson in un'intervista con Brad Keeney, uno dei suoi studenti. L'intervista ebbe luogo nel 1976, quando il lavoro di Erickson stava appena diventando noto ad un pubblico più ampio. Il nome di Erickson venne fuori durante l'intervista, e Keeney chiese se Bateson era stato in contatto con lui recentemente. Bateson rispose di no, solo attraverso alcuni dei molti studenti che Bateson aveva mandato a Erickson. Keeney chiese cosa pensasse dei libri che stavano uscendo su Erickson, e Bateson emise il suo archetipo di aristocratico inglese. Disse che odiava il lavoro, che si pentiva di aver mandato la gente da Erickson e che non l'avrebbe più fatto. Quando Keeney gli chiese di approfondire, Bateson disse che Erickson aveva un modo di entrare in un sistema così a fondo prima di agire che non era un ego separato dal sistema ma parte della "trama del complesso totale".

Perciò le sue tecniche nascevano dall'interno della trama e si armonizzavano con esse.