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Michele Klevens Ritterman, PhD
Articles, Chapters, Papers
2019
“The Single Stroke: What Makes Zingers Zing”
Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations, Edited by Hoyt and Bobell, Routledge Publishing, February 2019, pp.163-171.
2015
“One Session Therapy: Fast New Stance Using the Slo-Mo Three Minute Trance”
The International Journal of Psycho-social and Culture Genomics, Consciousness & Health Research, February 2015.
2014
“To Do the Impossible: A Four-Part Poetic Essay on Responding to Human Evil”
Paper presentation, Erickson Congress.
2013
“The Tao of a Woman”
Therapist Stories of Inspiration, Passion, Chapter 24 Renewal, Hoyt, Routledge Publishing, pp. 217-231.
2012
“Once Session Therapy: Fast New Stance Using The Slow-Mo Three Minute Trance”
Capturing the Moment: Single Session Therapies and Walk-in Services, Hoyt and Talman. Edited by Bothel, Crown House Publishing.
2002
“The Philosophical Position of the Ericksonian Psychotherapist”
Handbook of Ericksonian Therapy, Edited by Geary, Zeig, Tucker & Theisen Publishing, February 2002.
2001
“The Centennial Year of Milton Erickson and Family Therapy”
The California Therapist, July-August 2001, pages 51-54.
2000
"Eight Principals of Ericksonian Psychotherapy"
Zeig, Tucker & Theisen Publishing.
1995
“Stopping the Clock”
The Family Therapy Networker, January-February 1995, pp.45-51.
“Trance and Trauma”
Book Reviews of Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy, Hope Under Siege, Terror and Family Support”
Charles B. Holton CSW, 1994 NCSH Newsletter.
"Five-Part Poetic Induction in Favor of Human Decency (Countering the Hate Movements)”
Reprinted from Ericksonian Methods: The Essence of The Story, Edited by Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brunner Mazel Publishing.
1992
"Notes of a Psychology Watcher: Words that Harm, Words that Heal"
Erickson Newsletter, Autumn Issue, Vol. 12, No. 3.
“The Bridge is Love"
Report from Human Rights Taskforce of American Family Therapy Association, (AFTA). AFTA Newsletter, #26, Winter, pp. 24-28.
"Hipnosis y Terapia Familiar: sus Estrechas Vinculaciones"
Sistemas Familiares, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
"Exploring Relationships Between Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Family Therapy, in Indirect Approaches in Therapy”
Edited by Steve de Shazer, Aspen Publishing.
“L'ipnosi nella Terapia della Famiglia”
Book translated into Italian, Casa Editrice Astrolabio, Roma, Italia.
1988
“Empleo de Hipnosis en Terapia Familiar”
Amorrotu Editories, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1987
“Inhumanity and the Human Family”
Editor’s Guest Article, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, Vol. 7, No. 1.
1986
“Exploring Relationships Between Ericksonian Hypnotherapy and Family Therapy”
Indirect Approaches in Therapy, Edited by Steve de Shazer, Aspen Publishing.
“The Bridge is Love”
Report from Human Rights Taskforce of American Family Therapy Association (AFTA), AFTA Newsletter #26, Winter, pp. 24-28.
1985
"The Family's Hypnotic Pull"
The Family Therapy Networker, March-April Vol 9, #2, pp. 22-26.
"Family Context, Symptom Induction and Therapeutic Counter-induction: Breaking the Spell of a Dysfunctional Rapport”
Ericksonian Psychotherapy Vol. II: Clinical Applications, Edited by Jeffrey K. Zeig, Brunner Mazel Publishing, pp. 49-70.
"Spell-Breaking and Spell Binding"
Paper presented at Second International Ericksonian Congress, Phoenix, AZ.
“Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy”
Jossey-Bass Publishers, Inc.
1982
"Hemophilia, Hypnosis and Family Therapy"
Abstract presented at American Clinical Hypnosis 25th Anniversary Meeting, October 1982.
"Hemophilia in Context: Adjunctive Hypnosis for Families with a Hemophiliac Member"
Family Process, Vol. 21 Issue Four, pp. 469-476.
"Abuses of Medical Neutrality and Mental Health"
Panel Presentation at Orthopsychiatry, San Francisco, CA.
1980
"Hypno-Structural Family Therapy, in Group and Family Therapy: An Overview”
Edited by Wolberg and Aronson, Brunner Mazel Publishing.
1979
"Outcome Study for Ritalin, Placebo and Family Therapy Treatment of Hyperactivity"
Study presentation, Psychological Association, March, Philadelphia, PA.
1977
"Paradigmatic Classification of Family Therapy Theories"
Abstract, Family Process, March 1977, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 29-49.
1970
"Classificazione Paradigmatica della Teorie di Terapia Familiare"
Terapia Familiare, Vol. 2, Dicembre, pp. 105-135.
"The Loyal Deviants: on the relationships between individual greatness and great social dilemmas”
Adolescence, Vol. IV, 18, pp. 223-230.