In 1951, a young hospital doctor treated a patient suffering from a
rare and debilitating skin disease - thought to be incurable - with
a single session of hypnosis, unaware that he was about to make
medical history. The case caused a sensation. Doctors described it
as 'unprecedented and inexplicable' and 'a challenge to current
concepts of the relation between mind and body'. Like many, author
Guy Lyon Playfair wondered how on earth the hypnotist did it, and
unlike many he was determined to find out. In this lively,
provocative and meticulously researched book he attempts to meet
that challenge and explain the 'miraculous' cure that was fully
documented in the British Medical Journal, with its unexpected
aftermath, and to open up the whole subject of the role played by
the mind in the healing process. More than two centuries since
Mesmer and his pupil the Marquis de Puysegur introduced an ancient
healing technique into Western medicine, the question of what
happens to a person under hypnosis remains to be fully explained.
Yet, seemingly unaware of it, the medical profession already has
the key to a technique of incalculable potential benefit, the true
nature of which it still seems reluctant to face. Playfair
maintains that the unspoken transfer of information between one
living being and another, and the ability of the mind to move
matter without the use of physical force are important but
neglected aspects of the art of healing. Far from being occult
superstitions or mere speculations, such natural abilities have
been shown repeatedly - in life and laboratory - to be matters of
fact. Their suppression in Western society can no longer be
justified medically. Nor should the practice of hypnosis be
confined, as it tends to be in medical practice, merely to the
treatment of minor psychosomatic complaints. Playfair draws on a
wide range of source material, much of it hitherto buried in
orthodox medical and specialist literature, to show that it is
neglect, rather than lack of knowledge, that is preventing the
widespread use of an inexpensive and natural healing process, the
full potential of which has yet to be explored.
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