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About Michele Ritterman
- Michele Dee Klevens Ritterman Ph.D.
- (born November 18, 1946) is an American clinical psychologist and family therapist who published Using Hypnosis in Family Therapy, the first book on the systematic integration of family therapy and hypnotherapy.
- After receiving her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from Temple University, Ritterman is noted for her expertise regarding survivors of political torture and their families.
- She is a prolific author whose work has been translated into Spanish, German, Italian and French. One of Milton Erickson’s foremost students, Ritterman originated the concept of the symptom as a trance state that is actually suggested by various people and social structures.
- From this basic concept that Erickson himself admired, she framed therapy as the production of counter-inductions and hypnotic sequences that impact the symptom trance. In recent years Ritterman has lectured nationally and internationally on using hypnosis in conjunction with family therapy and more particularly against socially violent governments and their abusive use of psychological methods and techniques.
- She also lectures on the survival techniques of families experiencing torture. Michele Ritterman lives in Berkeley, California and currently has a private practice as an individual, couples and family therapist.
- She also consults with agencies and teaches classes at universities, holds workshops, and lectures about her clinical methods.
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