Hypnotic Histories . . .

The Gulf Daily News has a short piece with some history bits about hypnosis Myth and Mystery of Hypnotherapy which has a rather interesting quote from Sigmund Freud’s Hypnosis, circa 1891 . . .

"There is no doubt that the field of hypnotic treatment is far more extensive than that of other methods of treating nervous illnesses. Everything that has been said and written about the great dangers of hypnosis belongs to the realm of fable. If we leave on one side the misuse of hypnosis for illegitimate purposes – a possibility that exists for every other effective therapeutic method – the most we have to consider is the tendency of severely neurotic people, after repeated hypnosis, to fall into hypnosis spontaneously."

Freud’s major breakthroughs in talk therapy can be traced to work done through hypnosis. He later abandoned hypnosis in part because he just wasn’t all that good at it and in part because he began favoring talk therapy in which the client did the talking via free association and he did active listening despite that unguided route being a bit longer. He also had some breath stench and mouth sore issues in his later years due to his oral cancer.

Jung also had early success with hypnosis but later abandoned it after reaching faulty conclusions regarding one elderly woman’s relapse (dismissing the hypnosis rather than the particular process used).

All the best,
Brian

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