History Of Hypnotism Research Articles

Lost Objects: From the Laboratories of Hypnosis to the Psychoanalytic Setting

The psychoanalytic setting counts today as one of the familiar therapeutic rituals of the Western world. Taking up some of the insights of the anthropology of science will allow us to account for both the social and the material arrangements from which Freud's invention emerged at the end of the nineteenth century out of the clinical laboratories and private consulting rooms of practitioners of hypnosis. The peculiar way of neglecting or forgetting the object world and the institution of the psychoanalyst as a "transference object" will be traced back to multiple reconfigurations in the history of hypnotism in France and in Germany. In this process, different practitioners tried to achieve a synthesis of clinical work and experimental psychology, with the aim of objectifying knowledge about human subjectivity. While Freud retained the claim of psychoanalysis performing an experimental situation, he set apart his own setting from the objectifying practices which were characteristic of this experimental psychology located in the clinic and the private consulting room.

A History of Hypnotism. By A. Gauld. (Pp. 758; £24.95 pb.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1995. - Contemporary International Hypnosis. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Hypnosis, Melbourne, Australia, 6–12 August, 1994. Edited by G. D. Burrows and R. Stanley. (Pp. 407.) John Wiley & Sons: Chichester. 1995.

A History of Hypnotism. By A. Gauld. (Pp. 758; £24.95 pb.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1995. - Contemporary International Hypnosis. Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Congress of Hypnosis, Melbourne, Australia, 6–12 August, 1994. Edited by G. D. Burrows and R. Stanley. (Pp. 407.) John Wiley & Sons: Chichester. 1995. - Volume 26 Issue 6

A History of Hypnotism

Article AbstractFrom our regular book review column.Hypnotism, to this day, remains a forbidding subject for many people, including many professionals who should, at the very least as scientists, have an open mind in their approach to any phenomenon. Those individuals who are interested in learning more about this intriguing subject will find Dr. Gauld's history a royal avenue into understanding. I have found no work in recent years that is more comprehensive in its treatment of the history of hypnosis in the Western world than this one.

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Book reviewed in this article:Discursive Psychology. By D. Edwards & J. Potter.Personality at Work: The Role of Individual Differences in the Workplace. By A. Furnham.Language, Interaction and Social Cognition. Edited by G. R. Semin & K. Fiedler.Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A Critical Dictionary. Edited by Elizabeth Wright.Psychology and Postmodernism. Edited by S. Kvale.Vulnerability and Resilience in Human Growth. Edited by B. Tizard & V. Varma.Health Psychology: Stress, Behaviour and Disease. By D. Carroll.Accounting for Transsexualism and Transhomosexuality. By Bryan Tully.The Nature of Nurture. By T. D. Wachs.A History of Hypnotism. By Alan Gauld.It Shouldn't Happen to a Patient. By Pittu Laungani.

Alan Gauld. A history of hypnotism. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 738 pp. (cloth) (Reviewed by Anne Harrington)

Journal of the History of the Behavioral SciencesVolume 31, Issue 1 p. 81-83 Book Review Alan Gauld. A history of hypnotism. NY: Cambridge University Press, 1992. 738 pp. (cloth) (Reviewed by Anne Harrington) First published: January 1995 https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6696(199501)31:1<81::AID-JHBS2300310106>3.0.CO;2-5AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume31, Issue1January 1995Pages 81-83 RelatedInformation

Book Review: A History of Hypnotism

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A History of Hypnotism. Alan GauldA Critique of Psychoanalytic Reason: Hypnosis as a Scientific Problem from Lavoisier to Lacan. Leon Chertok, Isabelle Stengers, Martha Noel Evans

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A History of Hypnotism

A History of Hypnotism

A History of Hypnotism. By A. Gould. (Pp. 738; illustrated; £75.00.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. 1993.

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A history of hypnotism

A history of hypnotism

A History of Hypnotism

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Mind over body

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The use Of hypnotism As an Ethnologic research Technique

The use Of hypnotism As an Ethnologic research Technique