KNOWLEDGE HISTORY OF HYPNOSIS
Posted by adminHypnosis was known by the priests of the Babylonian Empire, but it was in 1775 that Frenchman Dr Anton Mesmer, the father of hypnosis, introduced hypnosis which he called ‘animal magnetism’. James Braid, an English surgeon, coined the word ‘hypnosis’ from the Greek work hypnos meaning sleep. Hypnosis is not sleep but an altered state of awareness. It was investigated and accepted by the British Medical Association in 1892 and again in 1952. It was decided on both occasions that hypnosis was a ‘genuine state’.
Hypnosis was thought by the Egyptians to be ‘sacred sleep’, others have suggested religious experience, sorcery, bewitchment, or even animal magnetism. The psychoanalysts felt that hypnotism only occurred because of the hypnotist’s power of suggestion. Others thought that hypnotism depended on an organic predisposition. That is, some necessary physical activity. Most scientists would still have difficulty in defining what hypnotism is.
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