hypnotherapy

Term: hypnotherapy

Literally meaning: “therapy via sleeping”

Origin: Anc Greek

õπνος /hypnos(=sleep)

θεραπεία/therapeia(=healing, attend, do service) 

>θρέφω/threpho(=nurse, feed, nourishes)

Coined/History

The best source of reference to hypnosis came from ancient Egypt (3^rd cen). The Demotic Magical Papyrus which was discovered in the 19^th cen in Thebes gives information about preparation of a lamp in order to be used in a ritual.

In the eighteen cen the Austrian phycisian Franz Anton Mesmer (1733-1815)  claimed that he could heal people without conventionasl medicine via gis megnetic 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

Hypnotherapy is a therapy that is undertaken with a subject in hypnosis.