For students and followers of the famous American hypnotherapist Milton H. Erickson – as well as for anyone who wishes to study the phenomenon of Erickson and his charisma from a critical distance – this book is a true delight: it contains hundreds of published and previously unpublished cases from Erickson's practice, which the editors have not only collected but also organized and skillfully summarized. Erickson was known not to be a great theorist and rarely provided precise treatment instructions. Instead, he told the stories of the many patients who had been in therapy with him. In this sense, these case descriptions present his clinical oeuvre. The reader no longer has to search through dozens of books to find out how Erickson treated patients with chronic pain, sexual issues, phobias, or addiction.