Mark Tyrrell

“… and the subject takes credit for it. You’re not telling the subject to ‘do this, do that’. So many therapists tell their patients how to think and how to feel. That is awfully wrong.”
Milton Erickson

And here’s Erickson again (I really must curb this habit):

“You ought to have your techniques so worded that there are escape routes for all resistance – intellectual, emotional, situational.”

We generally don’t like bossy people.

Sure, we may respect them, know they are ‘right’, that they get things done, but they tend to rob us of something that we human beings prize, perhaps above anything: a sense of freedom…

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