Hypnosis Gothic Psychology

Author : Michaela Niculescu
Publisher : Humanitas SA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789735065881

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Hypnosis Gothic Psychology by Michaela Niculescu Pdf

At the turn of the nineteenth century, Europeans started a spectacular quest for the mind or the psyche as that positivity which defines a subject while at the same time separating one subjectivity from another. The positivist context invented an object of study called mind and tried to define it as that which can become subject to ʿinfluenceʾ in Alison Winter's sense. My project is given to exploring the specific ways in which the intimacy of minds seen as bodily intimacy was articulated at the turn of the nineteenth century in England and Europe, at the dawn of a new science of the human psyche, psychology, and two ʿpseudosciencesʾ, psychoanalysis and psychical research, whose aim was that of understanding what communication between subjects meant and how one subject was likely to ʿinfluenceʾ another by acting on him or her. Michaela Niculescu

Author : Irving Kirsch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351929295

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Hypnosis by Irving Kirsch Pdf

Modern hypnosis can be traced back to the 18th century and during this period mesmerism, as it was then known, was a healing practice which spread throughout Europe and North America. Since then hypnosis has been treated primarily as a psychological phenomenon and theories about hypnosis are grounded in mainstream psychology and its related disciplines. Most recently it has been subject to extensive clinical trials to investigate its therapeutic effectiveness. In their comprehensive introduction to this invaluable collection the editors trace the historical development of hypnosis, providing an excellent review of the theories that have tried to explain how hypnosis works and reflecting on the cultural and scientific attitudes and practices that prevailed at various times. They have selected the most important previously published papers that reveal how a scientific approach to understanding hypnosis as a psychological phenomenon has emerged over the last 70 years. They have also included a selection of reports on clinical applications and on legal and forensic issues. As such this volume will prove an invaluable reference resource for researchers and students already in the field and new scholars interested in learning more about hypnosis.

Author : Hilary Grimes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317026266

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The Late Victorian Gothic by Hilary Grimes Pdf

Examining the automatic writing of the spiritualist séances, discursive technologies like the telegraph and the photograph, various genres and late nineteenth-century mental science, this book shows the failure of writers' attempts to use technology as a way of translating the supernatural at the fin de siècle. Hilary Grimes shows that both new technology and explorations into the ghostly aspects of the mind made agency problematic. When notions of agency are suspended, Grimes argues, authorship itself becomes uncanny. Grimes's study is distinct in both recognizing and crossing strict boundaries to suggest that Gothic literature itself resists categorization, not only between literary periods, but also between genres. Treating a wide range of authors - Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Du Maurier, Vernon Lee, Mary Louisa Molesworth, Sarah Grand, and George Paston - Grimes shows how fin-de-siècle works negotiate themes associated with the Victorian and Modernist periods such as psychical research, mass marketing, and new technologies. With particular attention to texts that are not placed within the Gothic genre, but which nevertheless conceal Gothic themes, The Late Victorian Gothic demonstrates that the end of the nineteenth century produced a Gothicism specific to the period.

Author : Andrew Smith
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748654994

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Victorian Gothic by Andrew Smith Pdf

The first multi-disciplinary scholarly consideration of the Victorian Gothic These 14 chapters, each written by an acknowledged expert in the field, provide an invaluable insight into the complex and various Gothic forms of the nineteenth century. Covering a range of diverse contexts, the chapters focus on science, medicine, Queer theory, imperialism, nationalism, and gender. Together with further chapters on the ghost story, realism, the fin de sic e, pulp fictions, sensation fiction, and the Victorian way of death, the Companion provides the most complete overview of the Victorian Gothic to date.The book is an essential resource for students and scholars working on the Gothic, Victorian literature and culture, and critical theory.Key Features*First multi-authored thorough exploration of the Victorian Gothic*Original research in all chapters*Sets the agenda for future scholarship in the field*Pedagogically awareKey WordsVictorian, Gothic, Science, Gender, Nationalism, Death, Supernatural, Ghost, Death

Author : Peter W. Sheehan,Campbell W. Perry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317504979

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Methodologies of Hypnosis (Psychology Revivals) by Peter W. Sheehan,Campbell W. Perry Pdf

Originally published in 1976, this title looks closely at the current nature of controls in hypnosis research at the time and tries to assess what they contributed to our knowledge of hypnosis. Specifically, the book analyses the contributions to our understanding of hypnotic phenomena offered by the application of six contemporary methodologies, or paradigms, of hypnosis. The primary concern is with those paradigms that are experimental, rather than clinical, in orientation, and which had emerged over the previous decade as coherent programmatic collections of procedural strategies, all of them associated with distinct and important views of how hypnotic behaviour can best be explained.

Author : Bernard Hollander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317487159

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Methods and Uses of Hypnosis and Self-Hypnosis (Psychology Revivals) by Bernard Hollander Pdf

Originally published in 1928, the main object of this book was to draw attention to the importance of hypnotism and its phenomena, in order to stimulate inquiry into what was at the time a ‘mysterious and unexplored subject’. The author had studied hypnotism nearly all his life and practised it for thirty years, he therefore felt the investigations, experiences, and views presented in this title would prove of interest and value both to the medical and psychological expert and the general reader of the time. Today it can be read and enjoyed in its historical context.

Author : Erika Fromm,Ronald E. Shor
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780202366692

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Hypnosis by Erika Fromm,Ronald E. Shor Pdf

This thorough revision of the fi rst edition, updates andexpands, with 25 percent new material, what was generallyrecognized as a major survey of contemporary scientificresearch in hypnosis. In this edition, also a classic, the editorsinclude three new essays in modern hypnosis studies.They also provide a new conceptual framework--cognitive,ego-psychological, and phenomenological--withwhich to examine hypnosis. This edition is divided into six sections--Th eoreticaland Historical Perspectives, New Th eories, Surveys ofBroad Areas, Lines of Individual Research, IndividualResearches within Specifi c Areas, and Anticipations forFuture Research. The entire book was completely revisedin the light of additional research since publication of theoriginal edition. Thirteen of the twenty chapters in the firstedition were updated by their authors, six so extensivelythat they amount to new chapters, with changes in titleand order of authors in the case of coauthored chapters. Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectivesis intended for researchers in hypnosis and clinicalpractitioners in medicine and psychology. The focus, asindicated by the changed subtitle, is on developmentssince publication of the original editions: empirical studies,experiments with physiological indicators of hypnosis,and theoretical uses associated with use of hypnosis as aresearch tool. Altogether, this second edition is a valuableoverall guide to an intriguing topic. Erika Fromm (1909-2003) was professoremeritus of psychology at the University ofChicago; she was president of the AmericanBoard of Psychological Hypnosis, andthe clinical editor of the InternationalJournal of Clinical and ExperimentalHypnosis and associate editor of The Bulletinof the British Society of Experimentaland Clinical Hypnosis. She was also pastpresident of the American PsychologicalAssociation psychological hypnosis division, Society for Clinicaland Experimental Hypnosis, and American Board of PsychologicalHypnosis. Ronald E. Shor was professor of psychologyat the University of New Hampshire and vice-chairman of theEducation and Research Foundation of the American Societyof Clinical Hypnosis.

Author : Judith Pintar,Steven Jay Lynn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1444305301

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Hypnosis by Judith Pintar,Steven Jay Lynn Pdf

Hypnosis: A Brief History crosses disciplinary boundaries toexplain current advances and controversies surrounding the use ofhypnosis through an exploration of the history of its development. examines the social and cultural contexts of the theories,development, and practice of hypnosis crosses disciplinary boundaries to explain current advances andcontroversies in hypnosis explores shifting beliefs about the nature of hypnosis investigates references to the apparent power of hypnosis overmemory and personal identity

Author : Michael R. Nash,Amanda J. Barnier
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199645800

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The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis by Michael R. Nash,Amanda J. Barnier Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis is the successor to Fromm and Nash's Contemporary Hypnosis Research (Guilford Press), which has been regarded as the field's authoritative scholarly reference for over 35 years. For postgraduates, researchers, and clinicians, this book is the definitive reference text in the field.

Author : Fred H. Frankel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461342809

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Hypnosis by Fred H. Frankel Pdf

"Hypnotism," asserted Durand de Gros in 1860, "provides psychology with an experimental basis, from which point on it becomes a positive sci ence and takes its place in the larger sphere of animal physiology. " At the time it was written, this pronouncement was perhaps more wish than fact, but it was accurately prophetic of many of the developments in clinical psychiatry in the decades that lay ahead. Charcot was the pioneering pathfinder. With his colleagues at the Salpetriere in Paris, he employed hypnosis as an investigative tool to explore the psychology of patients with major hysteria. The discovery of the role of unconscious pathogenic ideas in the production of hysterical symptoms provided a basis for theoretical formulations that reached an apogee in the voluminous writings of Pierre Janet. For Janet, dissociation of mental functions became a central concept, and at the turn of the century, numerous clinical investigators in Europe and America were engaged in a study of its mechanisms and clinical mani festations. Among those early investigators was Sigmund Freud, who after a visit to Charcot's clinic, initially turned his attention to dissociative phenomena. His interest, however, was soon drawn to the nature and source of the dissociated (repressed) mental contents and away from the mechanism of dissociation itself.

Author : Paul Schilder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Psychology
ISBN : UOM:39015063517497

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The Nature of Hypnosis by Paul Schilder Pdf

Author : F. L. Marcuse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0758165749

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Hypnosis by F. L. Marcuse Pdf

Author : Fredrik Johan Björnström,Nils Posse
Publisher : New York : Humboldt Publishing Company
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Psychology
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106289416

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Hypnotism by Fredrik Johan Björnström,Nils Posse Pdf

Author : F. H. Frankel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461328599

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Hypnosis at its Bicentennial by F. H. Frankel Pdf

since the first International Congress for Experimental and Therapeutic Hypnotism in Paris in 1889, there have been several per iods of widespread interest in hypnosis among the professions as well as the lay public, followed by periods of profound neglect. Since the end of World War II, however, we have witnessed not only a strong resurgence of interest in hypnosis throughout the world but also the gradual development of the kind of infrastructure which a field requires to survive and prosper. The burgeoning clinical literature has been matched by a dramatic increase in the amount of systematic research carried out in a wide range of institu tions throughout the world. A tradition of triennial major world congresses has been established, beginning with the 3rd International Congress for Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine in Paris in 1965. These meetings, encouraged and sponsored by the International Society of Hypnosis and its predecessor, the International Society of Clini cal and Experimental Hypnosis, are sponsored by universities and provide a forum for the exchange of ideas among scientists and clinicians throughout the world.

Author : Gordon David Lyle Bates
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031427251

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The Uncanny Rise of Medical Hypnotism, 1888–1914 by Gordon David Lyle Bates Pdf

This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect. It follows the careers of the ‘New Hypnotists’: Charles Lloyd Tuckey, John Milne Bramwell, George Kingsbury and Robert Felkin. This loosely knit group all trained with the Suggestion School of Nancy and published books on hypnotism. They had to confront the many public and medical prejudices against the trance state which had persisted after the scandalous disgrace of John Elliotson and medical mesmerism, fifty years before. Hypnotism was a highly contested technology and in the 1890s the debates about safety and utility were fought in the national newspapers as well as the medical journals. The new hypnotists took on the might of the medical institutions personified by Ernest Hart, Editor of the British Medical Journal. However their timing was propitious, as the rise of faith-healing forced the medical profession to confront the non-physical therapeutic aspects of the doctor-patient relationship. The hypnotic discourse was shaped by these developments, but also by the fascination of the general public, novelists, occultists, psychic investigators, educationalists and spiritualists in the myriad possibilities of the trance state. Despite growing interest in the prehistory of British psychology and talking therapies, and the recent challenges to the primacy of Freudian histories, there are few accounts of the development of British ‘eclectic therapy’. This book uses the New Hypnotists as a lens to examine Victorian medicine and society, exploring their role in establishing the term ‘psychotherapy,’ and legitimising medical hypnotism, a precursor of psychological therapies.