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Milton Erickson's Contribution to Psychiatry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Philip Barker
Philip Barker*
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University of Calgary, 1824 Richmond Road S.W., Calgary, Alberta, T2T 5C7, Canada
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Milton H. Erickson, MD. was born in 1901 in a cabin in a desolate part of Nevada where his father was a gold miner. When he reached school age his family returned to rural Wisconsin, where they had previously lived. As a child Milton experienced the world differently from other children in that he had red-green colour blindness, was tone deaf and, probably, also dyslexic. At 17 he had a severe attack of poliomyelitis. He was extensively paralysed but rehabilitated himself, largely by his own efforts, during the following two years.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 148 , Issue 4 , April 1986 , pp. 471 - 475
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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