Stephen Gilligan is one of the original group of students who studied with Bandler and Grinder at the foundation of NLP. A long time student of the legendary hypnotherapist, Milton H. Erickson, Gilligan is most well-known for his work in the area of hypnosis. He has been a leading teacher of Ericksonian hypnosis and psychotherapy over the past 20 years, and his book Therapeutic Trances: The Cooperation Principle in Ericksonian Hypnotherapy, is considered one of the classics in the field. He also has published a number of other books and articles in the field of psychotherapy. A psychologist in private practice in Encinitas, CA, Gilligan is also a devoted student of martial arts, especially aikido.
Gilligan has consistently emphasized and demonstrated the generative nature of mental process in each person's life. His most recent book, The Courage to Love: A Self-Relations Approach to Psychotherapy (Norton Professional Books, 1997), examines the relation of Erickson's legacy to aikido, Buddhism and nonviolence. It emphasizes love as a skill and a courage that may be cultivated and used to transform the many faces of violence and negative thinking that surround unhappiness and suffering.
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