Trilby and Svengali
The hypnotic relation
The nature of hypnosis
Assessing the myths of hypnosis
From Trilby to Svengali
Animal magnetism and magnetic sleep
Origins of animal magnetism
Mesmerism and exorcism
Practicing mesmerism
Mesmerism assailed
Mesmerism transformed
From animal magnetism to magnetic sleep
Magnetism and hypnosis
Fluidism and animism
Mesmerism at University College Hospital
Mesmerism in parlor and sickroom
Mesmeric anesthesia
Neurohypnology
From magnetism to hypnosis
Body and soul
Mesmerism in the United States
Phrenomagnetism and electrobiology
Mesmerism and spiritualism
Mesmerism and swedenborgianism
New thought and Christian Science
From body to soul
Salpêtrière and Nancy
Hypnosis at the Salpêtrière
The Nancy approach to hypnosis
The fall of hypnosis
Hypnosis outside of the mainstream
From Salpêtrière to Nancy
Laboratory and clinic
Hypnosis research in the early twentieth century
Hypnosis research during the world wars
Psychological healing in the early twentieth century
The resurgence of clinical hypnosis
The rise of popular hypnosis
From laboratory to clinic
State and trait
Neo-dissociation theory
Altered state theories
Non-state theories
Convergence in the state/non-state debate
The trait debate
From state to trait
Memory and identity
Repression of traumatic memory
Hypnosis and memory
Dissociation and traumatic memory
Challenges to the posttraumatic model
Hypnosis and dissociation of identity
From memory to identity
Present and future
Medical applications of hypnosis
Psychotherapeutic applications of hypnosis
Unanswered questions in the trait debate
Unanswered questions in the state debate
From the present to the future.
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Hypnosis : a brief history by Judith Pintar. ISBN 9781405134521. Published by Wiley-Blackwell in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
