The History of Hypnosis
Are you aware that hypnosis is a medically accepted science and that it is embraced by medical establishments all over the world?
Hypnosis, as we know it today, really began its existence as something rather different than the mind tool we use as today.
However, before we delve deeper into the modern history of hypnosis it should be noted that the name itself is derived from the Greek god "Hypnos" who was the god of sleep.
Hypnosis can be traced back as far as Babylon and ancient Egypt. It has been practised in one form or another for thousands of years.
Modern hypnotherapy owes its existence to work conducted by Franz Anton Mesmer. Mesmer was a healer who had many famous and wealthy clients of his day. Over his time as a healer he accrued thousands of successful healings. However, his healing methods were unorthodox and not even believed in them.
Although Mesmer believed he had found a way to use animal magnetism, a form of natural energy, to cure people of their diseases a Commission ordered by King Louis XVI of France (which included the American ambassador Benjamin Franklin) concluded that it was just the belief of the patients that affected the healing. They determined that some form of autosuggestion was at work.
Although modern hypnosis has its foundations in "mesmerisms", the term "hypnosis" was first used in 1842 by a Scottish physician named Dr. James Braid after he initially referred to it as "rational mesmerism".
His work with hypnotherapy was based on sound empirical and scientific evidence he gathered from clinical studies into the subject of autosuggestion. He published his research finding in 1843 in a work entitled "Neurypnology - The Rationale of nervous sleep considered in relation with animal magnetism.".
Today hypnosis is recognised across the world as a perfectly legitimate form of treatment for many disorders. In fact in 1952 The British Medical Association accepted it as a viable for of treatment. Then in 1958 the American Medical Association approved the use of hypnosis as did the American Psychiatric Association in 1962.
In the 21st Century hypnosis has come a long way. It is used as a very entertaining tool by stage hypnotists, as a medical tool in well-established government funded medical centres and also as a self improvement tool by hundreds of thousands of people across the world.
Although stage hypnosis is very popular and highly entertaining it is very different from the clinical hypnotherapy used by medical centres and the more popular self-improvement self hypnosis or hypnotherapy cd collections.
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