Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 221 pages) : illustrations |
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Blackwell brief histories of psychology |
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Blackwell brief histories of psychology.
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Contents |
Trilby and Svengali -- The hypnotic relation -- The nature of hypnosis -- Assessing the myths of hypnosis -- From Trilby to Svengali -- Animal magnetism and magnetic sleep -- Origins of animal magnetism -- Mesmerism and exorcism -- Practicing mesmerism -- Mesmerism assailed -- Mesmerism transformed -- From animal magnetism to magnetic sleep -- Magnetism and hypnosis -- Fluidism and animism -- Mesmerism at University College Hospital -- Mesmerism in parlor and sickroom -- Mesmeric anesthesia -- Neurohypnology -- From magnetism to hypnosis -- Body and soul -- Mesmerism in the United States -- Phrenomagnetism and electrobiology -- Mesmerism and spiritualism -- Mesmerism and swedenborgianism -- New thought and Christian Science -- From body to soul -- Salpêtrière and Nancy -- Hypnosis at the Salpêtrière -- The Nancy approach to hypnosis -- The fall of hypnosis -- Hypnosis outside of the mainstream -- From Salpêtrière to Nancy -- Laboratory and clinic -- Hypnosis research in the early twentieth century -- Hypnosis research during the world wars -- Psychological healing in the early twentieth century -- The resurgence of clinical hypnosis -- The rise of popular hypnosis -- From laboratory to clinic -- State and trait -- Neodissociation theory -- Altered state theories -- Non-state theories -- Convergence in the state/non-state debate -- The trait debate -- From state to trait -- Memory and identity -- Repression of traumatic memory -- Hypnosis and memory -- Dissociation and traumatic memory -- Challenges to the posttraumatic model -- Hypnosis and dissociation of identity -- From memory to identity -- Present and future -- Medical applications of hypnosis -- Psychotherapeutic applications of hypnosis -- Unanswered questions in the trait debate -- Unanswered questions in the state debate -- From the present to the future |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-212) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Hypnotism.
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Hypnosis.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Lynn, Steven J.
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ISBN |
1444305301 (electronic bk.) |
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9781444305302 (electronic bk.) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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(hbk. ; alk. paper) |
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(paperback; alk. paper) |
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