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Hypnosis : a brief history / Judith Pintar and Steven Jay Lynn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pintar, Judith.
- Series:
- Blackwell brief histories of psychology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hypnotism.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2008.
- 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
- Salpêtrière and Nancy
- Hypnosis at the Salpêtrière
- The Nancy approach to hypnosis
- The fall of hypnosis
- Hypnosis outside of the mainstream
- From Salpêtrière 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1405134518
- 1405134526
- 9781405134514
- 9781405134521
- OCLC:
- 237325143
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