Why Did Hypnnosis Disappear?

[Wombaticus Rex]

it seems people have missed his point laboring on his anti-semitic nature ....hypnosis went out of fashion as a medical treatment...not the entertainment value

Are you referring to another thread? I don't get it.

Nobody in this thread has said Thom Hartmann is anti-semetic. Or even implied that, so far as I can see.

I am saying that Hartmann is factually wrong about hypnosis whether your rubric is "medical" or "entertainment" -- check out Clark Hull. The narrative in the OP video is a great story with no relation to historical reality.

[Forgetting2]

Oh bother. I was mostly annoyed Hartmann took 11 minutes to say something which appeared to me to have such limited value, which, if I must be explicit, doesn't mean his observation has no value, nor does it mean he's anti-semitic.

I do have a bit of a bias against Hartmann. For me he somewhere seems to have crossed the line into 'professional game show host who's way too impressed with himself.' But that's just my impression.

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[seemslikeadream]

it seems people have missed his point laboring on his anti-semitic nature ....hypnosis went out of fashion as a medical treatment...not the entertainment value

Are you referring to another thread? I don't get it.

Nobody in this thread has said Thom Hartmann is anti-semetic. Or even implied that, so far as I can see.

I am saying that Hartmann is factually wrong about hypnosis whether your rubric is "medical" or "entertainment" -- check out Clark Hull. The narrative in the OP video is a great story with no relation to historical reality.

you're right ..I'm wrong...I misunderstood why the phrases "the Jew"... "the Jew"..."the evil Jew".... "the evil Jew" were being posted immediately in a thread about hypnosis ...with a sprinkling of cheerleader bhp in the middle

I apologize ...it won't happen again

oh and posting a Hartman video at RI ....what the hell was I thinking?

[coffin_dodger]

Thanks for spurring me to look further into hypnosis, SLAD.

I've been mildly intrigued by the subject since I was hypnotised by a 'therapist' twenty years ago - to stop smoking. It's remained one of the oddest experiences of my life. Anyhow...

I found this interesting - http://www.dangers-of-hypnosis.co.uk/ - a basic summary (leading to a book purchase) of how dangerous hypnosis can be.

and this - http://www.crossroadscounsellinggroup.c ... ofCRTI.pdf - a sort of 'home study' course to teach yourself how to hypnotise people.

It seems that the core criteria for beng successful is massive self-confidence and belief in oneself to practice the art.

I'm starting to look more closely at the way Jimmy Savile operated in this light.

[BrandonD]

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Thom Hartmann tells us why doctors stopped using hypnosis from 1858 to the 1950's.

Because a genuine understanding of hypnotism will give the plebes a useful tool to defend against the mass social trauma experiment being conducted upon them in contemporary society.

[BrandonD]

Interesting story SLAD, thanks for sharing.