Term: hypnosis
Literally meaning: “sleeping
process”
Origin: Anc Greek
?õπνος/hypnos(=sleep)
+ (-ωσις)/(-osis )(=suffix denoting “process” or “state”)
Coined/History
The best
source of reference to hypnosis came from ancient Egypt (3rd cen).
The Demotic Magical Papyrus which was discovered in the 19th cen in
Thebes gives information about preparation of a lamp in order to be used in a
ritual.
In the
eighteen cen the Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1815) claimed that he could heal people without
conventional medicine via his magnetic force which could regulate the magnetic
fluids in sick people. This method of healing was known as Mesmerism.
In 1841
Scottish surgeon James Braid,
adopted the terms of “hypnosis” and “hypnotism. He believed that mesmerism “is a nervous sleep”.
The modern
study of hypnosis is begun in the 1930s with Clark Leonard (1884-1952) and hi
work “ Hypnosis and Suggestibility” in 1933.
Definition
Hypnosis is a sleep-like trance
state with a heightened focus and concentration under instructions of a
therapist.
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