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Hypnosis: A Brief History

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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. 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 investigates references to the apparent power of hypnosis over memory and personal identity

Table of Contents:
Illustrations x Preface xi Chapter 1 Trilby and Svengali 1 The Hypnotic Relation 2 The Nature of Hypnosis 6 Assessing the Myths of Hypnosis 8 From Trilby to Svengali 9 Chapter 2 Animal Magnetism and Magnetic Sleep 12 Origins of Animal Magnetism 13 Magnetism and Exorcism 15 Practicing Magnetism 17 Magnetism Assailed 20 Mesmerism Transformed 23 From Animal Magnetism to Magnetic Sleep 24 Chapter 3 Magnetism and Hypnosis 31 Fluidism and Animism 32 Mesmerism at University College Hospital 35 Magnetism in Parlor and Sickroom 39 Mesmeric Anesthesia 40 Neurohypnology 43 From Magnetism to Hypnosis 46 Chapter 4 Body and Soul 54 Mesmerism in the United States 55 Phrenomagnetism and Electrobiology 57 Mesmerism and Spiritualism 61 Mesmerism and Swedenborgianism 63 New Thought and Christian Science 66 From Body to Soul 70 Chapter 5 Salpêtrière and Nancy 76 Hypnosis at the Salpêtrière 77 The Nancy Approach to Hypnosis 81 The Fall of Hypnosis 84 Hypnosis outside the Mainstream 87 From Salpêtrière to Nancy 92 Chapter 6 Laboratory and Clinic 98 Hypnosis Research in the Early Twentieth Century 99 Hypnosis Research during the World Wars 103 Psychological Healing in the Early Twentieth Century 106 The Resurgence of Clinical Hypnosis 108 The Rise of Popular Hypnosis 111 From Laboratory to Clinic 113 Chapter 7 State and Trait 120 Neodissociation Theory 121 Altered State Theories 123 Non-State Theories 126 Convergence in the State/Non-State Debate 130 The Trait Debate 133 From State to Trait 134 Chapter 8 Memory and Identity 143 Repression of Traumatic Memory 144 Hypnosis and Memory 147 Dissociation and Traumatic Memory 148 Challenges to the Posttraumatic Model 150 Hypnosis and Dissociation of Identity 152 From Memory to Identity 156 Chapter 9 Present and Future 166 Medical Applications of Hypnosis 167 Psychotherapeutic Applications of Hypnosis 169 Unanswered Questions in the Trait Debate 173 Unanswered Questions in the State Debate 177 From the Present to the Future 178 References 187 Index 213


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781405134521
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Brief History
  • Width: 140 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1405134526
  • Publisher Date: 19 Sep 2008
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 240
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 19 mm
  • Weight: 367 gr


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