Hypnotism: How It Is Done; Its Uses And Dangers | by James R. Cocke
It is a saying as old as the hills that "a little learning is a dangerous thing." While as a physician I am ready to admit the truth of this, I think that there is infinitely moredanger to the common weal from the populace being densely ignorant of the phenomena which are daily occurring in their midst. Hypnotism is at the present time exciting widespread interest, from scientific men, professional men, and laymen as well...
| Title | Hypnotism: How It Is Done; Its Uses And Dangers |
| Author | James R. Cocke |
| Publisher | Arena Publishing Company |
| Year | 1894 |
| Copyright | 1894, James R. Cocke |
| Amazon | Hypnotism: How It Is Done; Its Uses And Dangers |
By James R. Cocke, M.D.
Preface- It is a saying as old as the hills that a little learning is a dangerous thing. While as a physician I am ready to admit the truth of this, I think that there is infinitely moredanger to the common ...
- Chapter I. A Definition Of Hypnotism And Allied Terms, Together With Considerations Of What The Hypnotic Condition Is
- I cannot but feel that the term hypnotism is a misnomer. I have never seen a hypnotized person whose condition was identical with that of sleep. Since this has come to be the commonly existing term,...
- A Definition Of Hypnotism And Allied Terms, Together With Considerations Of What The Hypnotic Condition Is. Part 2
- Have the subject look fixedly at a bright object held about fifteen inches from the eyes. Tell him that he must think only of the object at which he is looking. Hold a bright coin in one hand, place t...
- A Definition Of Hypnotism And Allied Terms, With Considerations Of What The Hypnotic Condition Is. Part 3
- Sleeping persons can be hypnotized. Conversely, the hypnotic state can be succeeded by a natural sleep. I have frequently induced hyp-notism in a sleeping person by simply pressing the fingers and mak...
- Chapter II. The Effect Of Hypnotism Upon The Special Senses
- Hypnotism, as has been already mentioned, can produce total insensibility, both to touch and to pain, over any part or over the whole of the body. Painful affections such as functional neuralgias may ...
- The Effect Of Hypnotism Upon The Sense Of Sight
- This is one of the most curious of all phenomena occurring in the hypnotic state. If a person who is hypnotized is told to open his eyes he will do so, and seeing, will perceive only as the operator m...
- The Effect Of Hypnotism Upon The Sense Of Hearing
- All sorts of hallucinatory impressions may be produced upon the sense of hearing as well as upon the sense of sight. The subject's hearing may be made abnormally acute, or he may be made to hear thing...
- Chapter III. Auto-Hypnotism
- One can induce the hypnotic state upon himself by the exercise of the same faculties which produce it when it is brought about by the suggestion of another. A number of my subjects will pass into a d...
- Chapter IV. How To Detect The Attempted Simulation of The Hypnotic State
- Mast amateurs, and some professional operators, frequently imagine that subjects are hypnotized when they are not. A patient under my care was possessed with the idea that hypnotism meant necessarily ...
- Chapter V. The Dangers Attending The Practice Of Hypnotism
- This part of my subject is the most important, and at the same time the most difficult, for the lay reader to comprehend. One must be familiar not only with the consequences, immediate and remote, fol...
- Immediate Consequences Of Hypnotism
- I have occasionally seen subjects who complained of headache, vertigo, nausea and other similar symptoms after having been hypnotized, but these conditions were at a future hypnotic sitting easily rem...
- Conditions Which Contra-Indicate The Use Of Hypnotism In Disease
- There is one contra-indication greater than all the rest. It applies more to the physician than to the patient, more to the masses than to any single individual. It is not confined to hypnotism alone;...
- Remote Consequences Of Hypnotism
- It is generally believed that the hypnotic state is likely to weaken and paralyze the will of the subject when he is otherwise in a normal condition. Many persons will object to being hypnotized becau...
- Chapter VI. Hypnotism In The Lower Animals
- The first one to notice this phenomenon was Daniel Schwenter who, in 1036, fascinated a number of cocks and hens. Fr. Kircher, a Jesuit priest, made a number of scientific experiments ten years later....
- Chapter VII. The Curative Power Of Hypnotism
- Next to the welfare of the soul, no subject possesses so wide an interest as does the well-being of the body. Medicine and religion were early united in the progress of man. Esculapius held in Grecian...
- The Curative Power Of Hypnotism. Continued
- The terms hypnotic suggestion, posthypnotic suggestion, andsimplesuggestion will be used so frequently that an explanation of them seems necessary. By hypnotic suggestion is meant suggestio...
- Hypnotism In Acute Delirium
- Hypnotism has proved very beneficial in the acute delirium attending many fevers, and the best method of using it is by holding the attention of the subject, by means previously described, until the s...
- Chapter VIII. Method Of Applying Hypnotism In Disease
- In Chap. I. directions were given for inducing the hypnotic state. This state varies to a certain extent, according to the method used. As was previously said, the pulse-rate may rise, the face flush,...
- Simple Suggestion
- Hypnotic suggestion is by no means the only method we have of favorably impressing the mind. While the theories which have been advanced by the so-called Christian Scientists, mental healers, etc., ar...
- Chapter IX. Hypnotism In Surgery
- Bernheim, in his book on Suggestive Therapeutics, page 116, says, The use of hypnotism for the production of surgical anaesthesia is by no means a new thing. Dr. Char-pignon reviewed the following ...
- Chapter X. The Value Of Hypnotism And Therapeutic Suggestion In The Cure Of Dipsomania (Chronic Drunkenness), Morphio-Mania (The Morphine Habit), And The Other Drug Habits
- CIRCUMSTANCES have placed me in a position where I have been able to study carefully and extensively the subject of drink and other drug habits. I have investigated many of the cures which have been c...
- The Value Of Hypnotism And Therapeutic Suggestion In The Cure Of Dipsomania (Chronic Drunkenness), Morphio-Mania (The Morphine Habit), And The Other Drug Habits. Part 2
- A poor man feels rich when in the condition of serai-intoxication, especially if he is in the bar-room surrounded by companions in a similar state. The bright glare of the lights reflected by mirrors....
- The Value Of Hypnotism And Therapeutic Suggestion In The Cure Of Drug Addictions. Part 3
- In nearly all of my cases, I cannot say what per cent., there were other bodily ailments. My notes show that three cases of dipsomania who died were afflicted with chronic Bright's disease when they c...
- Value Of Hypnotism And Therapeutic Suggestion In The Cure Of Drug Addictions. Part 4
- The question might be asked, why did hypnotism fail here? Frankly, I do not know. The man was easily hypnotized, claimed to be earnestly desirous of a cure, stated that he used all of his will, but ye...
- Chapter XI. Hypnotism As A Cure For Illusions And Hallucinations
- The following definition are taken from Dr. Ireland's work entitled, The Blot upon the Brain. He says, Illusions are erroneous interpreta-tions of real sensations, that is, sensationsorigin-ating ...
- Hypnotism As A Cure For Illusions And Hallucinations. Continued
- Truly we carry ever with us, in our own bodies, substances which, if not eliminated, may not only kill us, but may act upon some part of the brain and disorder its function and disturb its harmony, an...
- Chapter XII. The Application Of Hypnotism To Functional And Organic Disease In General
- It will be my purpose again in this chapter, for the sake of clearness, and for the benefit of the general reader, to divest the subject, as far as possible, both of technical terms, and of theoretica...
- The Application Of Hypnotism To Functional And Organic Disease In General. Part 2
- It is the opinion of most of the European observers that all of the results attributable to treatment by magnets, charms, magnetized and electric belts, etc., are primarily the result of suggestion. ...
- The Application Of Hypnotism To Functional And Organic Diseases. Part 3
- I have seen a number of cases of this disease. As is well known to all physicians the ulnar nerves control sensation and motion to a certain extent on the side of the hand next to and including the li...
- Organic Disease Of The Nervous System
- Dr. Bernheim shows that hypnotism removes many of the symptoms attending organic disease of the nervous system, paralysis, anaesthesia (insensibility to touch and to pain), blindness from brain-injury...
- Paralysis Resulting From Disease Of The Brain
- No attempts will be made in the following reports to localize definitely the part of the brain affected. I have treated with hypnotism eight cases of hemiplegia (paralysis of one side of the body), r...
- Chapter XIII. Neurasthenia
- What a world of symptoms this simple word covers! Many and varied are its clinical manifestations. Alas, how common it is among the American people with their overworked nervous systems! The term als...
- Neurasthenia. Part 2
- Case 2. A Lawyer, Fifty-Five Years Of Age Family history good. He did not use alcohol and had no other vice. He was a railroad attorney, and transacted business for a large number of wealthy corporat...
- Neurasthenia. Part 3
- Microscopical anatomy teaches that the morphological elements of the gray matter of the brain are carried in the central part of the nerves to all parts of the body. There are distributed throughout t...
- Hysteria
- The complexus of morbid phenomena designated by this misnomer, would require volumes to adequately describe. The state exists in the intellectual and in the ignorant alike. Its victims have played a l...
- Hysteria. Part 2
- On the contrary, when there is anaesthesia (numbness), or when one faculty is alone affected by the hysterical symptoms, and when the mental equipoise of the patient is fairly good, hypnotism promises...
- Hysteria. Part 3
- First, then, the mind has subjectively the power of repeating in a real and vivid manner all of the phenomena of objective life. One will dream of eating and will relish food, or it will be loathsome ...
- Chapter XIV. Transference Of Sensation By Means Of A Magnet
- In 1890 M. Luys made public in the June and August numbers of the Fortnightly Review experiments which created a profound sensation. He claimed that magnets could be made to carry the sensations of ...
- Chapter XV. The Relation Of Sleep And Its Accompanying Dreams To The Phenomena Of Hypnotism, And The Hallucinations In That State
- In the early part of this book I took exception to the term hypnotism as denoting sleep. I said that many of the hypnotized subjects were not asleep, but, on the contrary, were very actively awake. ...
- Causes Of Dreams In The Natural Sleep
- These may be classified under two general groups. First, those occurring as a result of peripheral stimulation of the senses, and second, those which are the products of mental association. These two ...
- Natural Somnambulism
- A sleep-walker resembles a hypnotized person, as is well known, and a somnambulist will do a large amount of work and will accomplish wonderful feats while perfectly unconscious. The resemblance betwe...
- Disorders Of Natural Sleep
- The morbid conditions of sleep have not received the study they deserve. They resemble artificially induced hypnosis. Suggestion plays an important part. Bad dreams may frequently be prevented during ...
- Chapter XVI. Telepathy - Thought-Transference - Mind-Reading
- These three terms denote the super-sensory communications between two or more individuals - that is, the ability which one mind is supposed to possess to receive thoughts from another, without the com...
- Telepathy - Thought-Transference - Mind-Reading. Continued
- He had just led them within the walls, though he was already wounded in several places, when a bullet struck him in the right temple and he fell amongst heaps of others, where he was found in a sort o...
- Experimental Telepathy
- This is not so easy a task. It is beset on every side with difficulties, and the experimenter is liable to mistakes on every hand. I shall cite ray own experience, and then quote other cases. My fir...
- Experimental Telepathy. Part 2
- The subject had never visited the house before, and naturally did not know the contents of the closet, as he was carefully observed from the moment he entered the house. I could give many more intere...
- Experimental Telepathy. Part 3
- I shall cite a few of the conditions under which such experiments may be made. Let three persons agree upon one article, say a playing card, while the fourth is absent from the room. When number four...
- Experimental Telepathy. Part 4
- The chances against accidental success in the case of any one card are, of course, 51 to 1, yet out of the fourteen successive trials, nine were successful at the first trial, and only four trials we...
- Experimental Telepathy. Part 5
- On the other hand, even if this source of error was held to be excluded, the interpretation of the results remained ambiguous. As a matter of fact, Mr. Gurney himself was inclined to attribute the eff...
- Part II. Chapter I. Introduction And General Considerations In Part II
- In the first section of this work it has been my endeavor to make clear the phenomena of hypnotism, to enable the reader to understand it, to divest it, as has been said before, of superstition. This...
- Chapter II. Theories Of Hypnotism
- The Following Are Condensations Of Some Of The Principal Current Ideas Of Hypnotism There are three main theories advanced concerning the nature of the hypnotic state. They are the theories of (1) An...
- Theories Of Hypnotism. Continued
- It is generally held by those who believe in the suggestion theory that the various phenomena, such as echolalia, aphasia, imitation, etc., are the result of imitation aided by unconscious suggestiono...
- The Neurosis Theory
- Now the lay reader must not be frightened by this formidable-looking word. Its meaning is very simple. A neurosis is any affection of the 18 nervous centres occurring without any material agent produc...
- Sense Delusions
- Dr. Moll holds that we are subject to positive sense delusions in the waking state as well as in the hypnotic state, and gives as an illustration an example of Max Dessoir's. I say to some one who is...
- Sense Delusions. Part 2
- The explanation given for analgesia in the hypnotic subject is that it is induced by suggestion, reasoning from the fact that expected pain is much more keenly felt than that which comes unexpectedly....
- Sense Delusions. Part 3
- Arguing from the above, Dr. Moll concludes that such a result is brought about by vivid expectation, and remarks that it is therefore not astonishing that a post-hypnotic suggestion should succeed aga...
- Sense Delusions. Part 4
- Durand de Gros, Liebault, Richet, Beard, Schneider, Wundt, and Bentivegni take the same view. Speaking of the further investigation of numerical psychology, as that branch of psychology which conside...
- Sense Delusions. Part 5
- I believe that suggestion also plays a very important part in the production of both the hypnotic state and in its subsequent phenomena. Drs. Moll, Liebault, Bernheini, and many others have studied c...
- Sense Delusions. Part 6
- It is not likely that a large number of people would simulate perfect insensibility to such pain for the sake of self-aggrandizement, or of making themselves in some way wonderful. Persons suffering t...
- Sense Delusions. Part 7
- As consciousness is concentrated in one direction all other events are ignored by it, and we have as a result a man who is no longer himself. He will act out, as has been described many times before i...
- Sense Delusions. Part 8
- There is one thing typical of the major part of hypnotic phenomena. This thing stands out and differentiates all of the artificially induced hypnotic states from similar states which occur naturally. ...
- Chapter III. A Condensed Sketch of The History Of Hypnotism
- The origin of man's knowledge of that which now is known by the name of hypnotism is lost in antiquity. There are references to the subject in some of the earliest writings now extant. The Ebers Pap...
- A Condensed Sketch of The History Of Hypnotism. Part 2
- Mesmer attracted much attention at Paris, where he gained many adherents, but also found many opponents. Prominent among the former was Dr. d'Eslon, one of the most noted scientists of the day. Altho...
- A Condensed Sketch of The History Of Hypnotism. Part 3
- Soon after this, Burdin, a member of the Academy, in order to test the clairvoyant' powers which had been claimed for the hypnotic subjects, offered a prize of 3,000 francs to any one who could read a...
- Chapter IV. Bibliography
- A List of Authors and Periodical Literature, and of Books, relating to Hypnotism and Allied Subjects. All the Year, vol. ii. p. 136. Alphnrulery, La Therapeutiqiie morale et In suggestion. Paris, 18...
- Bibliography. Part 2
- Cruise (F. R.), Pr. Rof- Acad M. Ire. Dublin, 1890-91, ix. 143. Cullerre (A.), Magnetisme et hypnotisme, etc. Paris, 1886, 389p. 12mo. Czermak (J.), Hypnotism in Animals. Pop. Sci. Mon. vol. iii. p....
- Bibliography. Part 3
- 1892. Grutzner, Berger, Hypnot. Zustande. (1880-1881). Gonzalez (JoseRortrigo), El hipnotismo nerdadero. Estudios y observaciones sabre diclio asuuto. Mad. 1888, E. Rubinos, 43p. 12mo. Guerseut, ...
- Bibliography. Part 4
- Verriers, 1891, v. J. P. Masson, 42p. 12mo. Local Anaesthesia Induced in the Normal State by Mesmeric Passes. Proc. Br. Soc. Psych. Res. vol. iii. part 9. Lehmann, Die Hypnose. Leipzig, 1891. Lodge (P...
- Bibliography. Part 5
- Discussion of same in May 15, 1890. Raftaele, La suggestione terapeutica. Naples, 1887. Reese (J. J.), Gaillard'sMed. J. New York, 1888, xlv. 317p. Reese (J. J.), Med. Leg. J. New York, 1891-92, ix. ...
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