This documentary explores the personal life and incredible career work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., founder of Modern Hypnotherapy. This unsung American genius was a pioneer in psychiatry using radical and unconventional hypnotic techniques to cure not only patients but to control his own debilitating pain and paralysis. The work of Milton H. Erickson, M.D., often referred to as “The Mozart of Communication,” shocked the scientific community with new and effective theories for therapeutic intervention, which even today defy scientific explanation. But it is his personal story that commands our initial attention. How does a child born in the silver mining community of Aurum, Nevada, and soon to be ghost town at 7,500 feet above sea level, survive all odds after being stricken with polio to grow into the man destined to become an evolutionary genius in the fields of hypnosis and psychotherapy?
Direction
Vesely (Erickson's grandson) brings intimate access no outsider could.
Production
Archival session footage that's basically sorcery on camera.
Director
Alexander Vesely
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Erickson developed 'confusion technique' and permissive hypnosis specifically because traditional authoritarian hypnosis failed on resistant patients—he weaponized his own physical helplessness into psychological mastery.
Director Alexander Vesely is Erickson's grandson and trained directly in his methods, giving the film unprecedented access to family archives and previously unrecorded therapeutic sessions.
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