Milton Erickson (1901 - 1980) - psychologist, doctor of medicine, president and chairman of many scientific societies, an outstanding hypnotist, confined to a wheelchair... Erickson's work is on the verge of medicine and poetry, science and art. However, assessing him in the usual way is an unfavorable task, everyone who wrote about Erickson agrees on this - both his students who created the “school of Ericksonian hypnosis” and the authors of works on neurolinguistic programming. This book contains stories of Erickson - an amazing fusion of folklore and anecdote and... hypnotic metaphors containing hints on ways to solve patients' problems.