Already in the fifteenth century Paracelsus said: " As a man imagines himself to be, so it will be because he is what he imagines to be".
A young woman told me: "For months we try to gather the courage to come and see it. You will note that I bring a high collar and long sleeves, even if it's summer. But last night, when I saw all that dandruff on the carpet, and this morning, all the dandruff in my bed, I thought I must see a psychiatrist. With all that I psoriasis, can not get me anything worse. "
" So you think you have psoriasis? "
" I hate to put naked, "she said." You would see my body, my arms, my neck. I drop dandruff from all sides. "
" Let me see this psoriasis, "I said." I do not die of course, and not her. "
made me see. I watched carefully and the I said: "She has more than one third of psoriasis who thinks he has."
"I have come to her for help because she is a doctor," he said. "And you're telling me that I have less than a third of all psoriasis, and I see how much I , and she was reduced to one third."
"It 's so," I said. "She has a lot of emotions. She has little psoriasis and many emotions. She is alive, has feelings: little psoriasis, and many emotions. And a lot of emotions on his arms, body, and she called psoriasis. So you can not have more than a third of what I believe I have. "
"How much do I owe you?" he said.
I told him.
"I'll check, and I will never see," he said.
Two weeks later, he called me and told me: "Can you give me a date?".
"Yes," I said.
"I want to apologize. I want to see her again."
"There is no need to apologize because I made the diagnosis right, and I do not want to apologize for that."
"I really think you're right," he said. "I should not apologize, I should be grateful for having made the right diagnosis. I no longer have dandruff, and look at my arms. Here and there are small patches, but that's all. And the rest of my body. I was furious with her for two weeks. "
NB When Erickson told the young woman:" She has little psoriasis and many emotions, "is putting on the same level emotions and psoriasis, suggesting that the more you have emotions , the less you have psoriasis, and the more you have psoriasis, the less you have emotions. Then give it the chance to direct her emotions towards him. When you are angry with him, and that the anger remained for two weeks, his psoriasis decreased . He had many emotions and little psoriasis.
Bibliography: Milton Erickson - "My voice will go" - Tales of educational ME by Sidney Rosen Publishing House-Astrolabe -
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