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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. The man who was Erickson's target invited him to do what?
2. Erickson believes in doing what to help his patients heal?
3. What does the author say is the best way to describe Erickson's approach to working with his patients?
4. What is the purpose of delving into someone's subconscience? What would it help the doctor to find?
5. If a person says he cannot be put into a trance, Erickson says that the person is most likely:
Short Essay Questions
1. What is a common misconception about being put into a trance state? Can someone cause another to do something illegal or immoral while in a trance?
2. How did Arthur and the professor handle the situation?
3. What does it mean to be in a trance? What kind of person or activity is most likely to experience the state?
4. What is Erickson's primary method of treatment? What tool is used to treat the patient? What is the purpose?
5. What is automatic writing? What is the process? How is it helpful?
6. The author includes a large number of examples featuring patients who are unaware of what actions? What kinds of results might there be from these particular actions?
7. Briefly describe Erickson's approach to dealing with patients on a one-to-one basis.
8. What happened between Arthur and the professor? What was the conflict?
9. What was Arthur's offer to the professor and the dean? What was the result?
10. Erickson believes that it may not be necessary to solve an entire problem for the problem to be effectively relived. Explain this theory and to what cases it might best relate.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
"It's just like riding a bike" is an old adage used by the author to refer to "forgotten" skills. What are forgotten skills? How is it possible to forget a skill? What could cause one to remember it? Would it be a matter of necessity, memory, or physical memory? What is physical or cell memory? How is it triggered? What does it do? How can it be helpful? What forgotten skills do you possess? Could you teach those skills to someone who does not have them? How?
Essay Topic 2
Erickson talks a lot about the following techniques - reframing, redirection and distraction. Compare and contrast the techniques. In your opinion which is best and/or most effective? Give examples of each.
Essay Topic 3
Erickson states that it is not always necessary to solve an entire problem. Oftentimes, it is possible to solve 2/3 of the problem and the rest will work itself out. Do you believe that? Explain. How could it be possible for the remaining 1/3 to resolve itself? Does it get resolved or does it become a non-issue, get ignored, or is it pushed back into the subconscious to be revisited at another time?
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