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Given the rich history of hypnosis, it's surprising that few people actively practice it. There is no real difference between ""hypnosis"" and ""self-hypnosis,"" as all hypnosis is really self-hypnosis: the former is guided with a therapist and the latter is self-administered. However, one can't be hypnotized without one's full participation - thus self-hypnosis is perhaps more valuable, since you can do it at home without paying the 100 an hour to a shrink. Powers' A Practical Guide to Self-Hypnosis offers the basics of the techniques, explains what it is and is not, and how to perform it

Hypnotism. --- Autosuggestion --- Braidism --- Hypnosis --- Trance --- Animal magnetism --- Mesmerism

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Fortement centré sur la pratique, cet aide-mémoire expose également l'état des connaissances actuelles pour chacune des 52 notions qui y sont présentées. La question de la douleur, domaine privilégié du recours à l'hypnose, y est largement traitée.L'aide-mémoire s'articule autour des grands thèmes suivants :- Concepts généraux et aspects méthodologiques- Construction et emploi des métaphores- Troubles de l'enfance et de la petite enfance- Hypnoanalgésie : douleurs aiguës et chroniques et autres situations- Troubles psychopathologiques Public : Psychologues cliniciens, hypnothérapeutes, psychiatres, médecins, paramédicaux.

Hypnotism. --- Autosuggestion --- Braidism --- Hypnosis --- Trance --- Animal magnetism --- Mesmerism

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Hypnotism. --- Trance. --- Hypnotism --- Social Sciences --- Parapsychology & Occult Sciences --- Autosuggestion --- Braidism --- Hypnosis --- Trance --- Animal magnetism --- Mesmerism

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The work analyses the complex relationship between mental illnesses and curative medicine in the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, highlighting problems deriving from unsuitable practices, and shedding light on the overwhelming, asymmetric relationship between doctor/patient, man/woman. The work analyses the doubling phenomena arising from the diaries, which Hoffmann overcame determined not to fall into madness; moreover, the author highlights Hofmmann's qualities as a man and a scholar, attentive to the limits of therapies, questioning doctors without understanding. The author summarises Hoffmann's ideas on the libertarian approach to illness, which includes the acceptance of the patient in their whole being, and presents his idea of therapy consisting of interpersonal dialogue and of listening to a story which reflects a similar case. The author also suggests the novelty of the "talking cure" method ante litteram, which was then successfully adopted by psychoanalysis: a method full of ideas, fruitful for literature, from Poe to Schnitzler, and for cinema, from Hitchcock to Kubrick.

Therapeutics in literature. --- Animal magnetism in literature. --- Hoffmann, E. T. A. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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.

Mesmerism --- Credulity --- History --- History --- agency. --- animal magnetism. --- antebellum United States. --- belief. --- enchantment. --- mesmerism. --- modernity. --- occult. --- secularization. --- spiritualism.