This is a terrific question and I'm glad you asked it. I have also informed Dr. Rossi of his error about this issue. There is a quote published by Dr. Erickson (I believe it is in the article titled "Hypnosis: Its Renascence as a Treatment Modality" wherein he states that he used a number of "confabulated" case stories (in the case of a soldier expereincing a psychosomatically paralyzed arm - Erickson moved the paralysis to his little finger instead). So, obviously Erickson used stories that were not 'true' in the historical sense. For that matter, his first article on the subject concerned an invented story that created an "artificial neurosis in an experimental subject."