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Erickson commented on this example as follows:
“You see, the girl thought her feet were too large, and in the most beautifully convincing way, I had forced upon her a compliment. If she would grow her feet large enough for a man to see. There was no way of rejecting that compliment. There was no way of disputing. I certainly hadn't been trying to make her feel better. There was nothing for the girl to do but accept the absolute proof that her feet were small. There's no other way.”
“... when you consider a lot of neurotic manifestations, some little traumatic thing will precipitate progressively larger and larger neurosis. Why can't you take the same attitude toward the correction of neurosis? Take something that is in essence a traumatic thing, correctly orient it, and just thrust it upon the person in such a fashion that they have to accept it, and deal with it and incorporate it... The therapeutic trauma.” [2]
We know a lot now about how the brain learns very quickly in states of intense traumatic arousal that create a limited focus of attention in the same way that hypnosis does. Drama can create this intense arousal for positive learning as well.
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