Hypnotism Daily Scoops

And numerous psychiatrists succumbed to the temptation of fashionable theories and resorted to them to explain the phenomena of hypnosis. Witness, for instance, the following interpretation of what happens during the trance: "You are in touch with the unconscious mind of the subject, which is just as capable of handling the body and is just as acute as is the individual's conscious mind. . . This simple technique puts you in touch with the unconscious mind of the subject, which explains (sic!) the spectacular results which are observed. First of all, this unconscious mind is extremely suggestible . . ." What is it, mere naiveté?How easily one succumbs to the apparent plausibility of such interpretation is obvious from the following R. Mucller-Freienfels, The Evolution of Modern Psychology, 362. 3G. H. Estabrooks, "Hypnotism," Scientific American made of "negative hallucination," as related with comments by W. McDougall.

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