Jeffrey K. Zeig
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Jeffrey K. Zeig (born 6 November 1947), is the founder and director of the Milton H. Erickson Foundation. He has edited, co-edited, authored or coauthored more than 20 books on psychotherapy that appear in eleven foreign languages.
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Zeig is the architect of The Evolution of Psychotherapy Conferences, which are considered the most important conferences in the history of psychotherapy. He organizes the Brief Therapy Conferences, the Couples Conferences, and the International Congresses on Ericksonian Approaches to Hypnosis and Psychotherapy. Zeig is on the Editorial Board of numerous journals; is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 29, Psychotherapy); and Fellow of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis. He is a Distinguished Practitioner in the National Academy of Practice in Psychology of the National Academies of Practice.
Zeig has served as a Clinical Member and Approved Supervisor of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, a Clinical Member of the International Transactional Analysis Association (1974-1985), and an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology at Arizona State University (1988-1992).
A psychologist and marriage and family therapist in private practice in Phoenix, Arizona, Zeig conducts workshops internationally (40 countries). Zeig speaks at major universities and teaching hospitals including The Mayo Clinic, Menningers and MD Anderson. He is president of Zeig, Tucker & Theisen, Inc., publishers in the behavioral sciences.