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The Use and Value of Hypnosis

Joe Franklin

General Psychology 1
Dr. Ralph Sneed
July 19, 2005
The Use and Value of Hypnosis
The practice of hypnosis has been credited to Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer, whose research in the 1700s became the basis for modern hypnosis. Believing there was a magnetic fluid in the air to be absorbed by the body's nerves through breathing, Mesmer used magnets, and later his hands, to increase circulation of this fluid by diminishing blockages caused by disease. Later, the University of Nancy's Hippolyte Bernheim emphasized the psychological nature of hypnosis, shifting perceptions to include both physical and cognitive applications of hypnosis. By the 1920s, psychologist Clark L. Hull suggested the human nature of hypnosis. According to Piccione (2005a), "the determining factor of successful hypnotism was the subject's imagination, and that some subjects were more responsive than others." Since 1958, the American Medical......

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