Milton H. Erickson (1901-1980) - the best specialist of the twentieth century in the field of hypnosis and short-term psychotherapy, founder and president of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis, founder and editor of the American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, author of more than a hundred works on psychotherapy. Among his colleagues, he had no equal in diversity of creativity, insight, ingenuity and intuition. This book is a unique product of the collaboration of real magicians of psychotherapy and hypnosis, the founders of neuro-linguistic programming - Richard Bandler, John Grinder and Judith Delozier.