Many experts believe that there are only two main approaches to the induction of hypnosis; paternal and maternal, or authoritarian and permissive but that’s a meaningless concept which has no connection with this work as I teach it.
The “Myth of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy” is the title of a paper that was presented In the journal of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis by a professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.