INTRODUCTION
According to American Psychological Association, hypnosis is a technique used to treat
patients by bringing the patient in a state of trance. Through hypnosis, a hypnotist can bring
about sensations and psychological behaviors in the person being hypnotized. Hypnosis is widely
practiced across the world and has found many important uses as well. This technique is used to
treat many mental problems including depression, anxiety, paranoia, etc. Thus it is an important
technique. However, the scope of hypnosis is somewhat limited because of its limit towards its
application. The degree to which hypnosis proves successful depends upon a number of reasons
(Sheehan & Perry, 2015). Thus we see that a lot of people are not benefitted from hypnosis since …show more content…
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The historical backdrop of hypnosis is as antiquated as that of magic, enchantment, and
medication; surely, hypnosis has been utilized as a strategy as a part of every one of the three. Its
exploratory history started in the last part of the eighteenth century with Franz Mesmer, a
German doctor who utilized hypnosis as a part of the treatment of patients in Vienna and Paris
(Sheehan & Perry, 2015). Due to his mixed up conviction that hypnotism made utilization of a
mysterious power (which he termed "creature attraction") that coursed through the trance inducer
into the subject, Mesmer was soon ruined; yet Mesmer's technique—named trancelike state after
its maker—kept on fascinating therapeutic professionals. Various clinicians made utilization of it
without completely understanding its tendency until the center of the nineteenth century,
According to American Psychological Association, hypnosis is a technique used to treat
patients by bringing the patient in a state of trance. Through hypnosis, a hypnotist can bring
about sensations and psychological behaviors in the person being hypnotized. Hypnosis is widely
practiced across the world and has found many important uses as well. This technique is used to
treat many mental problems including depression, anxiety, paranoia, etc. Thus it is an important
technique. However, the scope of hypnosis is somewhat limited because of its limit towards its
application. The degree to which hypnosis proves successful depends upon a number of reasons
(Sheehan & Perry, 2015). Thus we see that a lot of people are not benefitted from hypnosis since …show more content…
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The historical backdrop of hypnosis is as antiquated as that of magic, enchantment, and
medication; surely, hypnosis has been utilized as a strategy as a part of every one of the three. Its
exploratory history started in the last part of the eighteenth century with Franz Mesmer, a
German doctor who utilized hypnosis as a part of the treatment of patients in Vienna and Paris
(Sheehan & Perry, 2015). Due to his mixed up conviction that hypnotism made utilization of a
mysterious power (which he termed "creature attraction") that coursed through the trance inducer
into the subject, Mesmer was soon ruined; yet Mesmer's technique—named trancelike state after
its maker—kept on fascinating therapeutic professionals. Various clinicians made utilization of it
without completely understanding its tendency until the center of the nineteenth century,