Born in Aurum, Nevada, a town which has since disappeared, Dr. Erickson is one of the few people who traveled east in a covered wagon when his family settled on a farm in Wisconsin. His interest in hypnosis came about when he was an undergraduate student in psychology at the University of Wisconsin and observed a demonstration of hypnosis by Clark L. Hull. Impressed by what he had seen, Erickson invited Hull's subject up to his room and hypnotized him himself. From that time on he taught himself to be a hypnotist by using as subjects anyone who would hold still for him, including his fellow students, friends, and his family when he returned to his father's farm for summer vacation. In the Fall of the next year he took part in a seminar in hypnosis from Hull which was largely devoted to examining Erickson's experiences hypnotizing people during the summer and his experimental work in the laboratory. By his third year of college, Erickson had hypnotized several hundred people, he had carried on quite a number of experiments, and he had demonstrated hypnosis for the faculty of the medical school and the psychology department as well as the staff of Mendota State Hospital.
AfterreceivinghismedicaldegreeattheColoradoGeneralHospitalandcompletinghisinternshipandaspecialperiodoftrainingattheColoradoPsychopathicHospital,EricksonacceptedthepositionofjuniorpsychiatristatRhodeIslandStateHospital.Afewmonthslater,inApril,1930,hejoinedthestaffoftheResearchServiceattheWorcesterStateHospitalandrapidlyrosefromjunior,seniortoChiefPsychiatristontheResearchService.Fouryearslater,hewenttoEloise,Michigan,asDirectorofPsychiatricResearch,andTrainingatWayneCountyGeneralHospitalandInfirmary.Inaddition,hebecameanAssociateProfessorofPsychiatryattheWayneStateUniversityCollegeofMedicineaswellasafullprofessorintheGraduateSchoolthere.Briefly,hewasconcurrentlyaVisitingProfessorofClinicalPsychologyatMichiganStateUniversityinEastLansing.HedidhismostextensiveexperimentationwithhypnosisatEloiseandfoundideasfromhypnosisparticularlyusefulinthetrainingofpsychiatricres
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