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Hypnosis reveals strange and deep aspects of the human mind. Victorian investigators had tied themselves in knots working out what was in hypnosis was real and what was fake, what was essential and what irrelevant, and just what the dickens was really going on. These two books, written a hundred years ago, come after more than a century of passionate and heated debate with reputations made and reputations lost. Finally, things were beginning to become clear. Writing in 1897, Vincent still has many misconceptions, in particular his section on the dangers of hypnosis. But Bramwell sees things almost entirely correctly.
While an enormous amount has been added to hypnotherapy in the following 100 years, almost nothing Bramwell states is wrong. His work may be crude and simple, but it is correct in all essential aspects - and effective. It could be called the Model "T" Ford of hypnotherapy.
Bramwell was himself a surgeon and was a serious scientific investigator of hypnotic phenomena as well as treating many difficult cases by hypnosis. Bramwell's is by far the better book, and I hope will be of great interest to both hypnotherapists curious about the archaeology of what they do, and to general readers who would like to know more about the history of hypnosis.
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