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- Author(s): Jackson, Donald Dale
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Smithsonian. Mar99, Vol. 29 Issue 12, p126. 14p. 4 Color Photographs, 5 Black and White Photographs.
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Focuses on the history of hypnosis as a medical solution for pain. Common misconceptions about hypnosis; Description of a hypnosis by clinical psychologist John F. Chaves; Lack of understanding by physicians of hypnosis and how it works; Doctors who have increased understanding of hypnosis, including the Viennese physician Franz Anton Mesmer, the British surgeon James Braid, and the British physician James Esdaile; Writers' interest in hypnosis, including Charles Dickens and Edgar Allen Poe.
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