Hypnosis a brief history /

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Main Authors: Pintar, Judith.
Group Author: Lynn, Steven J.
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Literature type: Electronic eBook
Language: English
Series: Blackwell brief histories of psychology
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Online Access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781444305296
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781444305296
1444305298
Index Number: BF1141
CLC: B842.7
Contents: Trilby and Svengali -- The hypnotic relation -- The nature of hypnosis -- Assessing the myths of hypnosis -- From Trilby to Svengali -- Animal magnetism and magnetic sleep -- Origins of animal magnetism -- Mesmerism and exorcism -- Practicing mesmerism -- Mesmerism assailed -- Mesmerism transformed -- From animal magnetism to magnetic sleep -- Magnetism and hypnosis -- Fluidism and animism -- Mesmerism at University College Hospital -- Mesmerism in parlor and sickroom -- Mesmeric anesthesia -- Neurohypnology -- From magnetism to hypnosis -- 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 -- Salptr̊irë and Nancy -- Hypnosis at the Salptr̊irë -- The Nancy approach to hypnosis -- The fall of hypnosis -- Hypnosis outside of the mainstream -- From Salptr̊irë to Nancy -- 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 -- 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 -- Memory and identity -- Repression of traumatic memory -- Hypnosis and memory -- Dissociation and traumatic memory -- Challenges to the posttraumatic model -- Hypnosis and dissociation of identity -- From memory to identity -- 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.