page(s) Therapeutic Touch
There was something of a craze for Therapeutic Touch in the 1970s and 1980s. The name is misleading, though, since there is no laying on of the therapist's hands. Instead, the unnamed vital force (which we might as well call animal magnetism as anything) is manipulated at a distance of a few centimetres from the patient's body. Disease is seen as the disorder of the subtle energy, and the purpose of the manipulation is to realign or re-balance the energy field, and to restore its uninterrupted flow through, around and in the body. All this is strongly reminiscent of Mesmer, except that the claims made for Therapeutic Touch are more modest, with practitioners claiming only that it accelerates the body's natural healing processes.
References
The numbers in square brackets refer to the bibliography that follows.
page(s) 1. Hypnosis in Fact and Fiction
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To the serious-minded … entertainment: R.A. Nelson, A Complete Course in Stage Hypnotism (Columbus, Ohio: Nelson Enterprises, 1965), p. 3.
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A stage operator … knocked him down: Estabrooks [16], p. 42.
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The ordinary … corruption of morals: Quoted in Dingwall [99], vol. 3, p. 137.
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The business … or panic: Stephen Fry, Moab is My Washpot (London: Hutchinson, 1997), p. 77.
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The process … to leave me: Strieber [114], p. 59.
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The Unconscious … conscious of: F. Jeffrey, quoted in Brian Lancaster, Mind, Brain and Human Potential (Shaftesbury: Element, 1991), p. 16.
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I could easily … was curious: W.B. Yeats, Autobiographies (London: Macmillan, 1926), p. 103.
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The noise … but doing little: Spiegel [169], p. 441.
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The hidden observer … It's just there: From Ernest Hilgard, Divided Consciousness (1977); quoted in Crabtree [124], p. 32.
page(s) 2. In the Beginning
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You take a boy … that you wish: F.L. Griffith and H. Thompson, The Demotic Magical Papyrus of London and Leiden (3 vols., London: Grevel, 1904).
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exegetically indefensible: Letter to John Court, quoted in Court [31], p. 123.
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The significance … Jesus’ home town: Wilson [35], p. 93.
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that superior intelligences … camel into a pit: Speculum Astronomiae, article 112.
page(s) 3. Franz Anton Mesmer
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The first patients … which Gassner did: Quoted by Ellenberger [2], p. 54.
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Mesmer sat … up and down: Adapted from the account in D.M. Walmsley, Anton Mesmer (London: Robert Hale, 1967), pp. 69–70.
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Science is … his need: Robert White, ‘A Preface to the Theory of Hypnotism’, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology, 36 (1941), 477–505; reprinted in Shor and Orne [23], pp. 192–216. The quotation is taken from the start of the paper.
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After having attended … perfectly chimerical: Quoted by Podmore [5], p. 55.
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Bergasse and Kornmann … proprietary rights: Forrest [3], p. 59.
page(s) 4. Magnetic Sleep and Victor's Sister
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A young man … to be convinced: A letter of M. Cloquet, an eyewitness, quoted in Podmore [5], p. 75.
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I no longer know … fluid exists: Du Magnétisme animal (1820), pp. 155–6.
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He hypnotized her … to cure it: Unknown translator, Daedalus edition, p. 255.
page(s) 5. Crusaders and Prophets in the United States
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Daily … outherod Herod: Quoted by Fuller [45], p. 27.
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I use this term … are produced: Pathetism (Boston: White and Potter, 1847), p. 3.
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Never has there been … space and spirit: Quoted in Dingwall [99], vol. 4, p. 3.
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Dr Darling … to the life: W. Gregory, Letters to a Candid Inquirer on Animal Magnetism (London: Taylor, Walter and Moberly, 1851), pp. 192–3.
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a deranged state of mind: Horatio Dresser (ed.), The Quimby Manuscripts (Secaucus, NJ: The Citadel Press, 1976), p. 33.
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The poverty … nebula: This is the summing-up by Podmore [5], p. 233.
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Before the discovery … passes for wisdom: p. 85.
page(s) 6. ‘Mesmeric Mania’ in the United Kingdom
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small army … publications: Parssinen [73], pp. 88–9.
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I looked … my hand: Letter to her uncle John Welsh, 13 Dec. 1844.
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advocated … drop their h's: Journals and Correspondence of Lady Eastlake, ed. C.E. Smith (London, 1895), vol. 1, p. 152, entry for 24 Dec. 1844.
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That in the nineteenth century … phreno-mesmerism: Cooter [66], p. 158.
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in quarters … Phreno-Magnetism: Phreno-Magnet (April 1843), 65– 6.
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The new Mesmeric … the more respectable: ‘Mesmerism’, n.d., n.p. Bod. Firth b. 27 (f. 242), Bodleian Library, Oxford, quoted by Cooter [66], p. 156.
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By the exercise … under the influence: Barth [14], p. 6.
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In his body … senses cannot see: From La Magie dévoilée (1852), translated by Crabtree [1], p. 196.
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in a state of philosophical doubt: Table Talk, 31 March 1830. 180 Mesmerism … civilized society: Lancet (15 Dec. 1838), 450.
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Why has some knowledge … medical men: Parssinen [74], p. 103.
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It is a measure … efficacy: Ibid, p. 109.
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I have no hesitation … convince me: Human Physiology, 5th edn (1840), pp. 679–80.
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And speaking of magnetism … rather alarmed: Letter to John Forster, 1–4 April 1842, this section written on 2 April.
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your bigoted … your instruments: Zoist, 1845, p. 206. 203 Since it cannot … waking condition: Hypnotic Therapeutics (1853), p. 12.
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But instead … sense of this: Mary S. Lovell, A Rage to Live: A Biography of Richard and Isabel Burton (London: Little, Brown, 1998), p. 483.
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Now, I do not consider … testimony to the fact: Neurypnology, in Tinterow [6], p. 284.
page(s) 7. Murder, Rape and Debate in the Late Nineteenth Century
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He would transfer … afflicted her: Hacking [126], p. 173.
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The hypnotic condition … idea of a neurosis: Bernheim [79], p. 418.
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The views … scientific men: Bramwell [21], p. 437.
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forced to abandon … the subject: Ibid, p. 323. 224 I provoked … your own master: Bernheim [79], pp. 57–8.
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On one occasion … out of hypnosis: Owen [82], pp. 189–90.
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The subject … sleep condition: John Watkins, ‘Antisocial Compulsions Induced Under Hypnotic Trance’, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 42 (1947), 257–8.
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I felt heavy … my legs: Quoted by Temple [19], p. 263.
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A certain patient … feared detection: Cited in the translation by H.W. Armit of August Forel, Hypnotism, or Suggestion and Psychotherapy (1907; New York: Allied Publications, 1927), p. 296.
page(s) 8. Psychic Powers and Recovered Memories
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almost impossible … mesmerisation: SPR Proceedings, 1 (1882–3), p. 257.
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The points … a murmur: Ibid, p. 258.
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We discovered … English title: Harold Rosen in Kline [108], pp. xvii–xviii.
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Did she put a fork … the fork: Debbie Nathan and Michael Snedeker, Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt (New York: HarperCollins, 1985), pp. 141–2.
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Because … hypnotist as well: Strieber [114], p. 55.
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Similarly … this burn: Kline [108], p. 158.
page(s) 9. Freud and Other Alienists
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These sisters … everything afresh: Human Physiology, 5th edn (1840), p. 1165.
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Gurney's … its importance: From William James on Psychical Research, edited by Gardner Murphy and Robert Ballou (London: Chatto and Windus, 1961), p. 34.
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I believe … possession: Crabtree [1], p. 290.
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The hypothesis … if it were true: Gauld [4], p. 414.
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Well, Dr Wilbur … home going: Schreiber [129], p. 172.
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a new way to be an unhappy person: Hacking [126], p. 236.
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While I was still a student … hypnotic suggestion: An Autobiographical Study, tr. James Strachey (London: Hogarth Press, 1948), pp. 206–7.
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I gave up … it returned: Complete Works, vol. 6, p. 254.
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I held my finger … confusion: Quoted in Kline [117], p. 23.
page(s) 10. State or No State: The Modern Controversy
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A resistant subject … into a trance: Jay Haley, ‘An Interactional Explanation of Hypnosis’, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 1 (1958), 41–57; reprinted in Shor and Orne [23], pp. 267–87. The quotation is from p. 281.
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The guideline … he's failed: Grinder and Bandler [13], p. 25.
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A lot of people … he will talk: quoted by Stanley Rosen, My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson (New York: Norton, 1982), pp. 58–9.
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The responsive … is receiving: Barber, Spanos and Chaves [142], p. 5.
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Common sense … moral pressure: Gibson [17], p. 27.
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that level … conscious mind: In Leslie LeCron (ed.), Experimental Hypnosis (Secaucus, N.J.: Citadel Press, 1972), p. 80.
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I have every month … decide for themselves: Esdaile [61], pp. 218–19.
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In summary … controversial issues: Hilgard and Hilgard [151], p. 17.
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The view expressed … unique hypnotic process: Graham Wagstaff in Naish [136], p. 78.
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postulates … from others: Hilgard [149], p. 24.
page(s) 11. Hypnotherapy: Mind and Body
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When I first heard … still under control: Bowers [11], pp. 140–1.
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I feel relaxed … occasionally: A hypnotized woman in labour, quoted by Hilgard and Hilgard [151], pp. 113–14.
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Hypnosis … past century or so: Temple [19], p. 109.
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his method … patients about him: Raginsky in Kline [108], p. 23.
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Genetic … scope of hypnosis: H.M. Thomas in Heap [22], p. 142.
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Those two realms … immune system's business: Sapolsky [186], p. 126.
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Your honour's players … lengthens life: The Messenger, in The Taming of the Shrew, towards the end of the second part of the introductory Induction.
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There remains … How misleading!: Court [31], p. 59.
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The great lesson … cures were effected: W.R. Houston, quoted in Shapiro and Shapiro [194], p. 2.
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that when … will be effective: Graham Wagstaff in Naish [136], p. 76.
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I am often asked … hypnotic patterns: Yapko [12], p. 31.
page(s) 12. Mind Control
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a rather … automaton: G.I. Gurdjieff, Views from the Real World (New York: Dutton, 1973), p. 49.
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Motivation research … with the product: Quoted by Packard [203], p. 5.
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Nike … emotional leverage: Quoted by Klein [201], p. 21.
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The London … bear on him: Packard [203], p. 35.
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In advertising … attitudinal predisposition: Key [200], pp. 47–8.
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Media has … hypnosis: Ibid, p. 187.
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What you say … logical argument: Quoted by Serve Mosovici, The Age of the Crowd: A Historical Treatise on Mass Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1985), p. 152.
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Gurus tend … impose them: Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus (London: HarperCollins, 1996), pp. xiii–xiv.
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groups … external constraints: Kramer and Altstad [204], pp. 32–3.
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He is no longer conscious … reciprocity: Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind (London: Unwin, 1896), p. 30.
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the ancient desire … spells and potions: Marks [207], pp. 54 –5.
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All he felt … anything wrong: Ibid, p. 183.
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the aspirations … the scientist: Biderman and Zimmer [196], p. 4.
page(s) 13. Self-improvement and the New Age
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J.Z.’s head drops … she is now Ramtha: Brown [216], p. 3.
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Thick-set … loftier still: Charles Baudouin in [219], p. 9.
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From our birth … the Universe: Coué, [220], p. 6.
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Firstly … the imagination: Coué [219], p. 58.
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Every night … twenty knots: Coué [220], p. 26.
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I am going … life and health: Coué [219], p. 97.
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Throughout its duration … the faculties of our senses: Mike Jay (ed.), Artificial Paradises (London: Penguin, 1999), pp. 16, 123, 187.
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Meditation … ruminating thought: Shapiro [230], p. 14.
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Its symbolism … to travel: Eliade [232], p. 168.
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In the SSC … fail in his work: Harner [233], p. 64.
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For I am a big dancer … give them to God: Part of the narrative of a !Kung Bushman, quoted from Joan Halifax, Shamanic Voices (New York: Dutton, 1979), p. 57. N/um is at once divine power and healing medicine.
page(s) 14. A Plea
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I learnt … good condition: Plato, Charmides, 156d–157a.
Bibliography
This is a severely restricted bibliography; it represents only a fraction of my reading, and of the hundreds of books and even more articles relevant to the subjects covered in this book. Whatever the category, I have tried to include the best and most accessible work, to create a reading list designed for the general reader; the focus is inevitably on books, with the occasional article added to fill gaps and bring things up to date. After a couple of general sections, I have broken the list up into sections relevant to each chapter. There are more detailed bibliographies especially in [1], [4], [12], [65] and [136].
The History of Hypnotism
Many general books on hypnotism will have a historical section too. The five most informative histories are:
[1] Adam Crabtree, From Mesmer to Freud: Magnetic Sleep and the Roots of Psychological Healing (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993)
[2] Henri Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious: The History and Evolution of Dynamic Psychiatry (New York: Basic Books, 1970)
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