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The development of concepts, beliefs and practices related to hypnosis and hypnotherapy have been documented since prehistoric to modern times.. Although often viewed as one continuous history, the term hypnosis was coined in the 1880s in France, some twenty years after the death of James Braid, who had adopted the term hypnotism in 1841.
Hypnosis usually begins with a hypnotic induction involving a series of preliminary instructions and suggestions. The use of hypnosis for therapeutic purposes is referred to as "hypnotherapy", [15] while its use as a form of entertainment for an audience is known as "stage hypnosis", a form of mentalism.
Milton Hyland Erickson (5 December 1901 – 25 March 1980) was an American psychiatrist and psychologist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy.He was the founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis.
A 2019 meta-analysis of hypnosis as a treatment for anxiety found that "the average participant receiving hypnosis reduced anxiety more than about 79% of control participants," also noting that "hypnosis was more effective in reducing anxiety when combined with other psychological interventions than when used as a stand-alone treatment." [51]
James Braid in the nineteenth century saw fixing the eyes on a bright object as the key to hypnotic induction. [3]A century later, Sigmund Freud saw fixing the eyes, or listening to a monotonous sound as indirect methods of induction, as opposed to “the direct methods of influence by way of staring or stroking” [4] —all leading however to the same result, the subject's unconscious ...
Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃bʁwaz oɡyst ljebo]; 1823–1904) was a French physician and is considered the father of modern hypnotherapy.Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault was born in Favières, a small town in the Lorraine region of France, on September 16, 1823.
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Theodore Xenophon Barber (1927–2005) was an American psychologist who researched and wrote on the subject of hypnosis, [1] publishing over 200 articles and eight books on that and related topics.