History of Hypnosis

• Dave Elman - Influential 20th Centry Radio Show Host and Hypnotist

  

  Dave Elman was one of the most important hypnotist in the 20th century, especially in the area of pain management through hypnosis.

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• Carl Gustav Jung, Hypnosis and Analytic Psychology

  

  Carl Gustav Jung ventured deeply in hypnosis and analytic psychology. What turned him away form hypnosis seems to be a 'fake' patient... Here's how it happened.

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• Freud - the Father of Psychoanalysis

  

  Freud was in a sense the 'inventor' of psychoanalysis. Unfortunately for hypnosis - Freud turned away from it in favor of psychoanalysis - and the reasons why he did so were... Strange.

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• Emile Coue - The Father of Self-Motivation

  

  Emile Coue is a psychologist famous for coining the phrase "Every day, in every way, I'm getting better and better". He has helped further our understanding of hypnosis - AND is dubbed the father of self motivation. Quite a guy!

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• Dr. James Braid - 'Inventor' of Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion

  

  Dr. James Braid migth be considered the actual father of modern hypnosis. Dr. Braid removed all the mysticism out of it and helped popularize hypnosis between scientific circles...

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• Franz Mesmer - Father of Hypnosis

  

  Franz Anton Mesmer is the father of hypnosis. He is the one who gave us the word 'mesmerism'. Why was he so important in the world of hypnosis and what did he do?

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• Hypnosis in Modern Times Debated - History of Hypnosis Part 4

  Is hypnosis entertainment or therapy? How does media view hypnosis and hypnotist? Who owns hypnosis? These, and many more questions are answered in our final installment of our History of Hypnosis series.

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• Is Hypnosis Art or Science? - History of Hypnosis Part 3

  Is hypnosis art or science? Events leading up to the invention of NLP and other traditional practices of hypnosis might give us an answer - and we explore this in our third part of a four part History of Hypnosis series.

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• The Rise of Neuro-Hypnotism - Trance and Suggestion - History of Hypnosis Part 2

  This is the second part of our four part series about the history of hypnosis. In this part we discuss how trance and suggestion were used, as well as other events that took place between mid 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

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