Hypnosis A Brief History
by Pintar, Judith; Lynn, Steven JayEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-10-20
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
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
Author Biography
Judith Pintar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has written numerous articles and book chapters with Steven Lynn and is the author of two books, The Sociologically-Imagined Self: A Reader (2002); and The Halved Soul: Retelling the Myths of Romantic Love. (1996).
Stephen J. Lynn is a leading Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of 11 books and more than 200 articles and chapters. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Discovery Channel, and Science News.
Stephen J. Lynn is a leading Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of 11 books and more than 200 articles and chapters. His work has been featured in the New York Times, the Discovery Channel, and Science News.
Table of Contents
| Illustrations | p. x |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Trilby and Svengali | p. 1 |
| The Hypnotic Relation | p. 2 |
| The Nature of Hypnosis | p. 6 |
| Assessing the Myths of Hypnosis | p. 8 |
| From Trilby to Svengali | p. 9 |
| Animal Magnetism and Magnetic Sleep | p. 12 |
| Origins of Animal Magnetism | p. 13 |
| Magnetism and Exorcism | p. 15 |
| Practicing Magnetism | p. 17 |
| Magnetism Assailed | p. 20 |
| Mesmerism Transformed | p. 23 |
| From Animal Magnetism to Magnetic Sleep | p. 24 |
| Magnetism and Hypnosis | p. 31 |
| Fluidism and Animism | p. 32 |
| Mesmerism at University College Hospital | p. 35 |
| Magnetism in Parlor and Sickroom | p. 39 |
| Mesmeric Anesthesia | p. 40 |
| Neurohypnology | p. 43 |
| From Magnetism to Hypnosis | p. 46 |
| Body and Soul | p. 54 |
| Mesmerism in the United States | p. 55 |
| Phrenomagnetism and Electrobiology | p. 57 |
| Mesmerism and Spiritualism | p. 61 |
| Mesmerism and Swedenborgianism | p. 63 |
| New Thought and Christian Science | p. 66 |
| From Body to Soul | p. 70 |
| Salpetriere and Nancy | p. 76 |
| Hypnosis at the Salpetriere | p. 77 |
| The Nancy Approach to Hypnosis | p. 81 |
| The Fall of Hypnosis | p. 84 |
| Hypnosis outside the Mainstream | p. 87 |
| From Salpetriere to Nancy | p. 92 |
| Laboratory and Clinic | p. 98 |
| Hypnosis Research in the Early Twentieth Century | p. 99 |
| Hypnosis Research during the World Wars | p. 103 |
| Psychological Healing in the Early Twentieth Century | p. 106 |
| The Resurgence of Clinical Hypnosis | p. 108 |
| The Rise of Popular Hypnosis | p. 111 |
| From Laboratory to Clinic | p. 113 |
| State and Trait | p. 120 |
| Neodissociation Theory | p. 121 |
| Altered State Theories | p. 123 |
| Non-State Theories | p. 126 |
| Convergence in the State/Non-State Debate | p. 130 |
| The Trait Debate | p. 133 |
| From State to Trait | p. 134 |
| Memory and Identity | p. 143 |
| Repression of Traumatic Memory | p. 144 |
| Hypnosis and Memory | p. 147 |
| Dissociation and Traumatic Memory | p. 148 |
| Challenges to the Posttraumatic Model | p. 150 |
| Hypnosis and Dissociation of Identity | p. 152 |
| From Memory to Identity | p. 156 |
| Present and Future | p. 166 |
| Medical Applications of Hypnosis | p. 167 |
| Psychotherapeutic Applications of Hypnosis | p. 169 |
| Unanswered Questions in the Trait Debate | p. 173 |
| Unanswered Questions in the State Debate | p. 177 |
| From the Present to the Future | p. 178 |
| References | p. 187 |
| Index | p. 213 |
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