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Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Hypnosis
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When most people think of "hypnosis" they imagine either a
sinister, Mesmeresque figure declaring to his subject "you're
getting sleepier and sleepier ... your eyelids are getting heavier
and heavier, you vill go into trance," or an entertainer compelling
a subject to "cluck like a chicken." In this comprehensive
introduction to hypnosis based on the pioneering work of Milton H.
Erickson, Bill O'Hanlon demystifies the concept of "trance" and
"hypnosis." He goes to the heart of the subject by answering the
question: "What is trance?" But be forewarned: This is no dry,
formal discourse on trance induction techniques. Rather, readers
are invited to share the experience of attending one of O'Hanlon's
lively and popular two-day workshops on Ericksonian hypnosis. In an
energetic and often humorous manner, O'Hanlon takes his audience
through the basics of trance induction and explains the how, what,
and why of hypnosis. Readers familiar with Erickson's work will be
delighted at the author's Class of Problems/Class of Solutions
approach, which deconstructs Ericksonian interventions and provides
a powerful new tool in directing clients toward solution. Each
individual element of trance induction is explained clearly,
through the use of case examples, demonstrations, and audience
participation exercises. The book's gradual approach takes readers
through the hypnotic process in a step-by-step fashion, increasing
their skills and confidence.
From the 1830s to the Civil War, Americans could be found putting
each other into trances for fun and profit in parlors, on stage,
and in medical consulting rooms. They were performing mesmerism.
Surprisingly central to literature and culture of the period,
mesmerism embraced a variety of phenomena, including mind control,
spirit travel, and clairvoyance. Although it had been debunked by
Benjamin Franklin in late eighteenth-century France, the practice
nonetheless enjoyed a decades-long resurgence in the United States.
Emily Ogden here offers the first comprehensive account of those
boom years. Credulity tells the fascinating story of mesmerism's
spread from the plantations of the French Antilles to the textile
factory cities of 1830s New England. As it proliferated along the
Eastern seaboard, this occult movement attracted attention from
Ralph Waldo Emerson's circle and ignited the nineteenth-century
equivalent of flame wars in the major newspapers. But mesmerism was
not simply the last gasp of magic in modern times. Far from being
magicians themselves, mesmerists claimed to provide the first
rational means of manipulating the credulous human tendencies that
had underwritten past superstitions. Now, rather than propping up
the powers of oracles and false gods, these tendencies served
modern ends such as labor supervision, education, and mediated
communication. Neither an atavistic throwback nor a radical
alternative, mesmerism was part and parcel of the modern. Credulity
offers us a new way of understanding the place of enchantment in
secularizing America.
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