Hypnosis
by
Judith Pintar - Steven Jay Lynn
Explains the advances and controversies surrounding the use of hypnosis through an exploration of the history of its development. This work examines the social and cultural contexts of the theories, development, and practice of hypnosis. It investigates references to the apparent power of hypnosis over memory and personal identity.
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"Hypnosis: A Brief History" crosses disciplinary boundaries to explain current advances and controversies surrounding the use of hypnosis through an exploration of the history of its development. This work: examines the social and cultural contexts of the theories, development, and practice of hypnosis; crosses disciplinary boundaries to explain current advances and controversies in hypnosis; explores shifting beliefs about the nature of hypnosis; and, investigates references to the apparent power of hypnosis over memory and personal identity.
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General info
Publisher & Imprint:
Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)
City:
Chicester
Pages:
240
More info:
height 225 mm
width 147 mm
weight 472 gr
thickness 25 mm
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Age recommended:
College/higher education
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey: 154.709
Library of Congress Subject: Hypnotism
Summary
Hypnosis
Preface.1. Trilby and Svengali.The Hypnotic Relation.The Nature of Hypnosis.Assessing the Myths of Hypnosis.From Trilby to Svengali.2. Magnetic Fluid and Magnetic Sleep.Origins of Animal Magnetism.Mesmerism and Exorcism.Practicing Mesmerism.Mesmerism Assailed.Mesmerism Transformed.From Magnetic Fluid to Magnetic Sleep.3. Mesmerism and Hypnosis.Fluidism and Animism.Mesmerism at University College Hospital.Mesmerism in Parlor and Sickroom.Mesmeric Anaesthesia.Neurypnology.From Magnetism to Hypnosis.4. Body and Soul.Mesmerism in the United States.Phrenomagnetism and Electrobiology.Mesmerism and Spiritualism.Mesmerism and Swedenborgianism.New Thought and Christian Science.From Body to Soul.5. Salpetriere and Nancy.Hypnosis at the Salpetriere.The Nancy Approach to Hypnosis.The Fall of Hypnosis.Hypnosis outside of the Mainstream.From Salpetriere to Nancy.6. Laboratory and Clinic.Hypnosis Research in the Early Twentieth Century.Hypnosis Research during the World Wars.Psychological Healing in the Early Twentieth Century.The Resurgence of Clinical Hypnosis.The Rise of Popular Hypnosis.From Laboratory to Clinic.7. State and Trait.Neodissociation Theory.Altered State Theories.Non-State Theories.Convergence in the State/Non-State Debate.The Trait Debate.From State to Trait.8. Memory and Identity.Repression of Traumatic Memory.Hypnosis and Memory.Dissociation and Traumatic Memory.Challenges to the Post-Traumatic Model.Hypnosis and Dissociation of Identity.From Memory to Identity.9. Present and Future.Medical Applications of Hypnosis.Psychotherapeutic Applications of Hypnosis.Unanswered Questions in the Trait Debate.Unanswered Questions in the State Debate.From the Present to the Future.References.
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