A CRITICAL History of Hypnotism

About the Book

Despite more than two centuries of having tacitly recognized its enormous potential utility, the phenomenon of hypnosis has always been commonly regarded with outright Fear and Loathing. How is it possible that something as beneficial to humanity as hypnosis ever came to be viewed in such a horrible manner? I intend to show that the history of hypnotism provides us with the clue to this unfortunate legacy; and I've neither spared anyone's feelings nor pulled any punches in this quest to reveal the shamefully appalling level of incompetence and ignorance that has characterized the (mis)use of this phenomenon since its discovery by Mesmer more than two hundred years ago.

About the Author

The author is a European-trained hypno-therapist (now retired) who graduated in 1983 from the "Institute for Applied Hypnosis" (Instituut Voor Toegepaste Hypnose) in Amsterdam, Holland. After exclusively devoting more than twelve years of his life to researching most of the English, Dutch, German and French literature of the past two centuries on the subject, he embarked upon a unique mission: to uncover and reveal, for the very first time, the true reason why hypnotism has always been almost universally regarded by both the public as well as health care professionals in such a negative fashion.