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was coined by James Braid, a 19th-century British
mesmerist.
Hypnosis is used widely in medicine and psychology.
Donald Connery, in Exploring Hypnosis, says, “There is
greater interest in and employment of medical hypnosis
than ever before in history.” The American Medical
Association approved the use of hypnosis in 1958.
Courses on hypnosis are taught in many medical schools
and an estimated 20,000 medical and psychological
specialists use it (“Hypnosis,” Encyclopedia of New Age
Beliefs).
Hypnosis is used in pain relief, anesthesiology, drug and
alcohol abuse treatment, weight control, birth control,
sleep therapy, physical healing, psychological healing,
self improvement, human potential, regression therapy
(healing the present through recovering the past), and
many other ways.
When used in the field of modern health care, the idea is
that the practice of hypnotism itself is innocent and
useful and can be divorced from its occultic associations,
but this is impossible. Hypnotism arose from the field of
occultism and remains intimately associated with it. The
Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology says:
“Hypnotism is no longer classed with the occult
sciences. ... Nevertheless its history is inextricably
interwoven with occultism, and even today much
hypnotic phenomena is classed as ‘spiritualistic.’”
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