In 1960 he [Erickson] told about a 20-year-old man who grew 12 inches in height in the span of one year. In hypnosis, at the start of therapy, this stunted young man looked out on his world as though unwilling to grow, a modern-day Peter Pan.
For example, he described the room as though he were standing beneath a table. Similarly, a cow on his farm was visualized as though it were ten feet tall; his eyes were on a level with the cow's udder. Growth began to take place when Erickson encouraged the man to hallucinate his world as though he were standing part way up a staircase.
I said, "Why have you kept this report out of the literature?"
Erickson smiled and said, "No respectable editor of a scientific journal would publish such an impossible thing."
"Dr. Erickson," I answered, "You are the editor of a respectable journal."
He smiled again and said, "I would like to keep my job."
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From the book "Ericksonian Approaches"
Ericksonian Approaches
by Rubin Battino, Thomas L. South
The definitive training manual in the art of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy. Topics covered: The History of Hypnosis; Myths and Misconceptions; Traditional vs. Non-Traditional Inductions; Rapport-Building Skills; Language Forms; Basic and Advanced Inductions; Hypnotherapy Without Trance; Utilization of Ideodynamic Responses; Basic and Advanced Metaphor; etc.