Modern Trends in Hypnosis
The 9th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine expresses the continuity in the effort to gain scientific knowledge of hypnosis and scientific status for it, ever since the 1st International Congress for Experimental and Therapeutic
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MODERN TRENDS IN HYPNOSIS Edited by DAVID WAXMAN Chairman of the Scientific Program International Society of Hypnosis London, England
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Gartloch Hospital Glasgow, Scotland
MICHAEL GIBSON Child Guidance Centre Edinburgh, Scotland and
M. ANTHONY BASKER British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis Westcliff-on-Sea, England
PLENUM PRESS • NEW YORK AND LONDON
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Modern trends in hypnosis. "Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, held August 22-27, 1982, in Glasgow, Scotland" - T.p. verso. Includes bibliographies and index. 1. Hypnotism- Therapeutic use-Congresses. 2. Hypnotism-Congresses. I. Waxman, David. II. International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine (9th: 1982: Glasgow, Strathclyde) [DNLM: 1. Hypnosis-congresses. W3 IN415 9th 19821 WM 4151612 1982n] 616.89'162 84-26432 RC490.5.M6 1985
ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-4915-0 DOl: 10.1007/978-1-4684-4913-6
e-ISBN-13: 978-1-4684-4913-6
Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, held August 22-27, 1982, in Glasgow, Scotland 1985 Plenum Press. New York Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1985 A Division of Plenum Publishing Corporation 233 Spring Street, New York, N.Y. 10013
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To Eric Wookey, MC, LDS, Honorary Consultant Dental Surgeon of the Royal Free Hospital, First President of the London Dental and Medical Society for the Study of Hypnosis. He imparted his enthusiasm and knowledge of hypnosis widely, and thus played a prominent part in securing the acceptance of hypnosis by professional colleagues throughout the United Kingdom.
FOREWORD
The 9th International Congress of Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine expresses the continuity in the effort to gain scientific knowledge of hypnosis and scientific status for it, ever since the 1st International Congress for Experimental and Therapeutic Hypnotism was held in Paris in 1889, attended by many of the best-remembered psychiatrists and psychologists of the day - men such as Babinski, Bernheim, Binet, Delboeuf, Freud, James, Lombroso, F.W.H. Myers, Ribot, and many others. The continuity was broken by the period of reduced interest in hypnosis between the time of the 2nd International Congress for Hypnotism in Paris in 1900, and the revival of interest shown by the 3rd International Congress for Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine in Paris in 1965. Since then, the Congresses have met more regularly, making the one of which this is the report, the 9th. The programs of these Congresses have become increasingly rich through the years, with many of the older problems still with us but now studied more dispassionately in the light of new knowledge and new scientif
