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Hypnosis in History
Free Hypnosis in History Course
The American Hypnosis Association (AHA) in conjunction
with HMIs Accredited College of Hypnotherapy is proud to
present this FREE online course, Hypnosis in History.
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5,000 Years Ago
Ancient Hypnosis
To better understand the position
of Hypnosis in our world today,
and the possible paths of its future,
it is useful to examine the history
of the many ways that humans have used hypnotic states of
consciousness to understand themselves, and the world around them.
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Temple Sleep
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Sleep Temples
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Oracles
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Oracle at Delphi
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By far the most well-known in the ancient world was the Oracle
at Delphi in central Greece, which was in continuous use for over
a thousand years. The philosopher Heraclitus described it in the
6th Century BCE:
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"The lord whose is the Oracle at Delphi neither speaks nor hides
his meaning, but gives a sign. And the sibyl with raving lips,
uttering things mirthless, unadorned and unperfumed, reaches
over a thousand years with her voice thanks to the god inside her."
Individual expectation was built into the ritual for both the sibyl
herself and the subject, given the oracles reputation.
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Self Test
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1774 The Birth
of Mesmerism
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Paris, France
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profound silence was observed, broken only by strains of music
which occasionally floated through the rooms. The patients were
seated around a sort of vat which contained a heterogeneous
mixture of chemical ingredients.
With this, and with each other, they were placed in relation by
means of cords, or jointed rods, or by holding hands; and among
them slowly and mysteriously moved Mesmer himself, affecting
one by a touch, another by a look, a third by passes with his hand,
a fourth by pointing with a rod.
One person became hysterical, then another; one was seized with
catalepsy; others with convulsions; some with palpitations of the
heart, perspirations, and other bodily disturbances.
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1784 The Fall of
Animal Magnetism
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Artificial Somnambulism
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Self Test
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1819 The Pioneers
of Mesmerism
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Abbe Faria
One of these early practitioners was a man named Abbe Faria,
who wrote a book on the subject in 1819 entitled, "On the Cause
of Lucid Sleep."
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Abbe Faria was near the end of his life when he wrote this work,
and the road which led him there reads like a novel - literally.
Lucid Sleep
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During the whole of the operation, the patient in her trance
exhibited not the slightest sign of suffering. Her expression of
countenance did not change; nor was the voice, the breathing, or
the pulse at all affected.
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When asked by Dr. Mayo why he did not begin utilizing this state
for all his operations, the French doctor replied that "he had not
dared; that the prejudice against Mesmerism was so strong at
Paris that he probably would have lost his reputation and his
income by doing so."
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Self Test
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1843 Hypnosis
Gains Credibility
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Hypnotism and Hypnotist
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Eye Fascination
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Self Test
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Ambroise Liebeault
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But as fate would have it, a patient came to Dr. Liebeault who was
troubled with chronic sciatica and found no relief from the treatments
of the young university professor trying to help him.
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Suggestive Therapeutics
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Throughout the late 19th Century the work of the Nancy School
was under intense opposition from a more highly regarded group
academically Charcots Salpetriere School in Paris.
Self Test
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1882 Charcots
Salpetriere School
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Jean-Martin Charcot
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Hysteria
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State of Hypnosis
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But with time, more and more researchers began seeing the
arguments and experimental results of the Nancy School as
equally valid.
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Sigmund Freud
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Self Test
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1885 Sigmund Freud
and Emile Cou
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Josef Breuer
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Anna O.
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Psychoanalysis
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Through his two years of intense therapy with Anna O., Breuer
developed the core theory and practice of psychoanalysis, which
in turn was taken on and developed by Freud.
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Emile Cou
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Placebos and
Positive Suggestions
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Conscious Autosuggestion
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Self Test
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1890 Shamanism
and Trance Traditions
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One of the aspects that most fascinated them were trance traditions,
the most widely known of them being Shamanism.
Derived from a Siberian term, Shamanism has come to define
any healer that believes he heals by manipulating the power of
spirits using a trance technique.
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Classic Shamans
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In much the same way as the ancient Greek Sleep Temples, Shamans
employed sensory overload, expectation, and suggestion in their
rituals to heal and predict.
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Around the same time that researchers were first traveling to other
countries in the late 19th Century to study unfamiliar cultures,
unfamiliar cultures also began making themselves known right here
in the United States.
Swami Vivekananda
Introduces Yoga
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Self Test
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1920 Hypnosis in
the Modern Era
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Stage Hypnosis
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Milton Erickson
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Abreaction
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During the Second World War, hypnotherapy was used for the
first time in many American army hospitals to treat a wide variety
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of psychological battle trauma, including anxiety, fears, phobias,
and dissociation.
The most common technique they used abreaction - involved taking
the client back to the traumatic episode and reliving it to vent it out.
Though unpopular today, the technique was reported to have
achieved good results with the wounded soldiers.
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2012 Hypnosis in History Credits
Produced and Directed by
George Kappas
George Kappas, M.A., M.F.T. is the
Director of the Hypnosis Motivation
Institute (HMI) Accredited College and
Clinic of hypnotherapy located in Tarzana,
California, USA.
Mr. Kappas is also the President of the
American Hypnosis Association. Mr.
Kappas utilized the resources of these two organizations to create
this important documentary and offer it free online for all to see.
Mr. Kappas is the pioneer of HMI Web TV Hypnotherapy
Television 24/7 located on the Hypnotherapy Channel. The
Hypnotherapy Channel is a free source of TV shows and
presentations on Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy located at HMI Web
TV as well as Roku and other web based entertainment outlets.
Narration
John Melton, C.Ht.
Mr. Melton is a Certified Hypnotherapist and
Instructor at HMIs College of Hypnotherapy
with more than a decade of experience.
Mr. Melton is in private practice with offices
located at HMIs Hypnotherapy Clinic.
Mr. Melton is also featured as an Instructor
in HMIs free online course, Foundations in Hypnotherapy.
View John Melton's Hypnotherapist Biography.
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Writer, Researcher
Clayton Campbell
Mr. Campbell is an Anthropology Graduate
student at Columbia University.
Mr. Campbell worked for the HMI Studios
for one year contributing to many projects
including the research and writing of
Hypnosis in History.
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Edited by Ben Grant
Mr. Grant is HMI Web TVs post production
editor and television programmer.
Mr. Grant is a graduate of Video Symphonys
school of video editing and is a significant
team member in all levels of HMI Web TV
production.
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