HYPNOSIS HISTORY

Hypnosis History

Hypnosis History

Hypnosis has been utilised in one pattern or another (e.g., the doze temples of Ancient Egypt and Greece) for thousands of years.

Mesmer

Mesmer constructed upon the folklore and wisdom of the past while not being afraid of experimentation and discovering by doing. Although the public's admiration was huge, the health establishment, because of its vested concerns, was outraged. Mesmer rarely used words.His clients expected to experience relief from their problems by entering a convulsive state after which they would feel released and calmed. It is not clear if Mesmer was acquainted with the medical antecedents to his work.

Father Maximilian Hell

Mesmer did accept the religious origin, which was the healing work of a Jesuit priest, dad Maximilian Hell. In 1774 Mesmer for the first time seen animal magnetism when he observed the priest apply magnets to the bodies of individuals pain from various ailments. An early medical leverage may have been the fifteenth-century book by doctor Thomas Fienus.

Dr Thomas Fienus

Dr Fienus appreciated that there are two ways a person's imagination can be discharged up: from inside himself, and through the leverage of somebody else.

The public in France, especially the top categories, adored Mesmer. They acknowledged his assertion that there was some kind of invisible force (which he subsequently mentioned to as a fluid, though it stayed unseen) which journeyed from the magnetizer to the individual searching a therapy for anything ailed her. Most magnetizers were men and most patients were women.

Masonic concepts

Mesmer constructed on very old Masonic notions of illness being evidence inside the one-by-one of an imbalance of a universal fluid. The induction of convulsive attacks, or crises, conceived a healthy redistribution of the fluid. He accepted the method was physiological but as unseen as electricity and magnetism -- topics of large interest to scientists of ...