Hypnotism
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چکیده
These three recently published books illustrate the different tendencies which prevail in the United States and Britain regarding research work and published findings in hypnosis.
منابع مشابه
‘a Portion of Truth’: Demarcating the Boundaries of Scientific Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-century France
In fin-de-siècle France, hypnotism enjoyed an unprecedented level of medico-scientific legitimacy. Researchers studying hypnotism had nonetheless to manage relations between their new ‘science’ and its widely denigrated precursor, magnétisme animal, because too great a resemblance between the two could damage the reputation of ‘scientific’ hypnotism. They did so by engaging in the rhetorical ac...
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Hysteria and hypnotism became a favorite topic of studies in the fin de siècle neurology that emerged from the school organized at La Salpêtrière by Jean-Martin Charcot, where he had arrived in 1861. Georges Gilles de la Tourette started working with Charcot in 1884 and probably remained his most faithful student, even after his mentor's death in 1893. This collaboration was particularly intens...
متن کاملFrom Transnational to Regional Magnetic Fevers: the Making of a Law on Hypnotism in Late Nineteenth-century Belgium
In May 1892, Belgium adopted a law on the exercise of hypnotism. The signing of the law constituted a temporary endpoint to six years of debate on the dangers and promises of hypnotism, a process of negotiation between medical doctors, members of parliament, legal professionals and lay practitioners. The terms of the debate were not very different from what happened elsewhere in Europe, where, ...
متن کاملTrance state effects and imagery vividness before and during a hypnotic assessment: a preliminary study.
This preliminary study explored the relationship between imagery vividness before and during a hypnotic phenomenological assessment procedure, the Phenomenology of Consciousness Inventory-Hypnotic Assessment Procedure (PCI-HAP), while also assessing trance (hypnoidal) state effects and several other variables. The PCI-HAP allows the assessment of trance state effects associated with hypnotism t...
متن کاملGilles de la Tourette's criminal women: the many faces of fin de siècle hypnotism.
Gilles de la Tourette is now known for the disease which now bears his name, but his activities in the management of hysterics and in hypnotism, which gained him most of his lifetime reputation, have been largely forgotten. As one of the closest followers of Jean-Martin Charcot, he always remained faithful to his mentor's views, and was one of the most vehement defenders of La Salpêtrière schoo...
متن کاملHypnotism
This, the fifth edition of Dr. Forel's well-known work on Hypnotism, contains certain interesting and important additions to the theoretical phase of this subject. Considerable attention is given to the exposition of his theory of Monistic Identity ; that is, the unity of each physiological phenomenon, and its corresponding cortical molecular activity. Mind and body are thus but two aspects of ...
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دوره 18 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1960