 Cline's privately published work "Hope for high risk and rage filled children" also cites family therapist and hypnotherapist Milton Erickson as a source, and reprints parts of a case of Erickson's published in 1961.The report describes the case of a divorced mother with a non-compliant son.Erickson advised the mother to sit on the child for hours at a time and to feed him only on cold oatmeal while she and a daughter ate appetizing food.