In order that the argument may be sufficiently clear in every part, Lapponi deemed it advisable to begin with the narration of certain historical facts bearing on hypnotism as well as on spiritism. He speaks of the facts peculiar to hypnotism and spiritism, indicating when necessary the authorities which prove, at least in part, their objective existence. He then examines the analogy and the difference between the two kinds of facts so far placed on record. Contents: hypnotism; spiritism; details about hypnotism; phenomena proper to spiritism; analogy and difference between hypnotic and spiritistic phenomena; on the nature of hypnotism and its manifestations; on the nature of spiritism and its relative manifestations; effects of hypnotic and spiritistic practices; conclusions.

The Nancy treatment has attracted so much interest among men of science and members of the medical profession that it seems strange the knowledge of it is almost entirely theoretical. This system was successful on the Continent because it was practices by qualified physicians and surgeons, whose knowledge and experience taught them where the treatment would be likely to succeed, and where it would prove ineffectual. Tuckey here advocates its use not as a universal remedy or as a supplanter of ordinary medical treatment, but as a powerful auxiliary in combating many forms of disease not readily reached by other means.

Magnetism, mesmerism, suggestive therapeutics and magnetic healing, including all that is known in the art and practice of hypnotism, mesmerism, mental and magnetic healing. Prepared for the self instruction of beginners as well as for the use of advanced students and practitioners.

A correct guide to the science and how subjects are influenced. Its facts, theories and related phenomena, with explanatory anecdotes, descriptions and reminiscences. Contents: Puysegurian somnambulance; hypnotism as a remedy; hypnotism; hypnotic methods and conditions; hypnotism defended; hypnotic clairvoyance; crystal visions; magnets; hypnotism and animals; hypnotic miscellanies; natural somnambulism or sleep walking; introduction of hypnotism in Chicago; public press comments. Handsomely illustrated.

With numerous illustrations of treatment by suggestion. The author devoted his attention to a practical application of suggestional methods in the treatment of a most instructive miscellany of physical and mental conditions. This volume is a record of many thousand recent experiences, covering seven years of investigation.

Partial Contents: Science of Hypnotism; Instructions for Testing Subjects; Inducing Hypnotic Sleep; Fascination; Celebrated Table Method; Stage Hypnotism; Lock Method; Nancy Method; Favorite Method for Physicians; Hypnotizing by Rotating Mirror; Post-Hypnotic Suggestion; Anesthesia; Cataleptic or Rigid State; Lethargy or Death Trance; Clairvoyant or Second Sight; Self-Induced; By Telegraph, Telephone or Mail; People Hypnotized against their Will; Instantly Hypnotized; Different Stages; How to Awaken; Treatment by Suggestion; Hypnotism and Medicine; Hypnotism and Crime; Hypnotizing Animals.

Overcome nervous tension, pain, fatigue, insomnia, depression and addictive behaviors with these simple techniques. Now you can join the thousands of readers who have used hypnosis-a tool long used by professionals-to make dramatic improvements in their physical and emotional health . . . and achieve fabulous success and happiness in their relationships and career! In Healing Yourself with Self-Hypnosis you'll learn how to quickly and easily achieve a hypnotic state-and achieve amazing results with virtually any problems or concern, including: excess weight, substance abuse, pain management, smoking, childbirth, and anxiety.

The Science Web series provides resources that cover National Curriculum Key Stage 3 science and the approaches outlined in the QCA scheme of Work for Science. This enquiry pack includes student and teacher materials back-to-back for easy reference and management, guidance and notes for technicians, materials suitable for individual and group work and suggestions on the use of ICT to support the development of enquiry skills.

Contents: Thoughts and Precepts; Observations on What Autosuggestion Can Do; Education as it Ought to Be; A Survey of Seances; Letters From Patients Treated by Coue's Methods; The Miracle Within; and more.

Contents: The Science of Hypnotism; Instructions for Testing Subjects; Inducing Hypnotic Sleep; Fascination; Celebrated Table Method; Stage Purposes; The Lock Method; Post-Hypnotic Suggestion; Anaesthesia; Cataleptic or Rigid State; Lethargic or Independent State; Clairvoyant or Second Sight; Self-Induced Hypnosis; To Hypnotize by Telegraph, Telephone of Mail; People Hypnotized Against their Will; Hindoo Sleep--How Induced; Symptons of Hypnotism; How to Make a Subject; Curing Disease by Hypnotism; Personal Magnetism; Insanity; Animals; Magnetic Healing; plus much more.

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Contents: Thought and the Brain; The Will; Magnetic Power; Concentration; Personal Magnetism; Breathing and Physical Exercises; The Magnetic Gaze; Diet; Magnetic Healing.

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Contents: Preface: Interview of Emile Coue of Each Patient Attending His Clinic; Examples and Experiments Illustrating the Powers of Suggestion and Autosuggestion; Suggestions for Ailments; Advice to Patients; Lecture Delivered by Coue in American Cities.

Are you one of the millions of people searching for natural ways to improve yourself and eliminate bad habits? Hypnosis is a highly effective tool for behavior modification-and this practical and inspiring handbook will show you how to begin today to use hypnosis to change your life.
Hypnosis For Change provides simple, step-by-step details to help you harness the power of your own mind. You'll learn about the different trance states, the effective use of treatment scripts for either self-hypnosis or the hypnosis of others, and the best use of these techniques to bring you success.

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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.

The first book of its kind, this volume seeks to enable intelligent persons to read practically anything in the field of hypnosis. It also provides them with a substantial amount of reliable information concerning the history of hypnosis and its various contemporary uses and applications in medicine, psychology and other sciences. Moreover, it is a reference work of enduring value.

Hypnotherapist and experienced doula Sophie Fletcher shares with you the secrets to having a safe, natural and positive birth. Using a powerful combination of mindfulness, hypnosis and relaxation techniques, Sophie will ensure you feel genuinely excited and completely prepared for birth. With stories from women who have successfully used the tools in this book, as well as exclusive hypnosis and relaxation tracks, discover how to: - use your mind and body together to stay focused and in control - draw on visualisation and breathing techniques to help birth progress - feel positive and empowered, before, during and after you give birth Reassuring, practical and based entirely on what works, Mindful Hypnobirthing is your essential guide to giving birth the way you want to.

Stephen Gilligan's Generative Trance offers a framework for developing a more creative consciousness and lays out the step-by-step processes by which this can be done. William James used to say that `the unconscious mind is the horse and conscious mind is the rider: it's the relationship between the two that is most important.' In Generative Trance renowned trainer Stephen Gilligan shows you how to harness this relationship for a much more powerful and effective therapeutic intervention, and reveals how life can be lived as a great journey of consciousness. Emphasizing that reality and identity are constructed by ourselves, Gilligan explains how generative trance is crucial in creating new realities and possibilities for clients. It is a view that differs markedly from the traditional hypnosis ideas of a client losing control, as well as from Ericksonian approaches that feature a benevolent hypnotist who bypasses the conscious mind to work with a client's unconscious mind. Instead, generative trance stresses a `disciplined flow' process in which a person's conscious and unconscious minds cooperate to weave a higher consciousness capable of transformational change. Suitable for individuals who want to live life as a creative journey, as well as for professionals working with clients in such ventures.

Utilizing well-researched techniques of self-hypnosis, you can overcome your fears, lose weight or stop smoking, raise your self-esteem, significantly lessen the pain of childbirth, and strengthen your most important relationships. Through the Open Door: Secrets of Self-Hypnosis shows you how to use self-hypnosis to make big and lasting changes in your life by unlocking the secrets of your unconscious mind. Following the simple guidelines described in this book, you will learn to: * Attain the balance you want and need in your life * Dissolve self-sabotaging fears and be rid of unwanted habits--forever * Make better decisions-and stick with them * Develop unshakable self-confidence * Interpret your dreams

Roger P. Allen's Scripts and Strategies in Hypnotherapy: The complete works presents a comprehensive source of scripts and strategies that can be used by hypnotherapists to build a successful framework for any therapy session. This book - or, to be more specific, this revised and updated compendium of Volumes I and II - is designed to be of assistance to all therapists as they unlock the possibilities that exist for their clients and help them make significant and beneficial changes to their perceptions and beliefs. Upon compiling it, Allen's ultimate aim was to provide practitioners with the best toolkit of strategies possible, replete with a variety of practical scripts to serve as the basis for their interventions, derived from his own experiences as a therapist. It covers inductions, deepeners and actual scripts for a wide range of cases; from nail biting to insomnia, sports performance to past life recall, speech difficulty to loss and bereavement, pain management to resolving sexual problems, and more.There is a particularly comprehensive section on smoking cessation, including a specimen questionnaire for use during the initial interview as well as useful content for a leaflet on the dangers of smoking to give to clients to take away with them following the session. All of the scripts can be used as they stand, or adapted as necessary for specific situations and for client-specific needs and concerns. Suitable for hypnotherapists of all levels of experience.

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.

Now in it's fourth edition, this classic text presents a comprehensive overview of client-centered hypnosis. Since it is the person undergoing hypnosis that is the one with power to change him/herself, the hypnotherapist acts as the facilitator, tailoring the hypnosis session to the client. All of the techniques found in The Art of Hypnotherapy, including regression therapy and parts theory center on this concept.

Shows how all hypnotic techniques revolve around four main therapeutic objectives: Suggestion and Imagery; Discover the Cause; Release; and Subconscious Relearning. New features in this edition include an arrangement of techniques from simple to complex, a chapter on the common application of hypnotherapy including anger, impotence, stuttering, and tinnitus, and updated chapters on anchoring and triggers.