SRS 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: American Society Of Cinematographers, Highway Hypnosis, Exact Sciences

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: SRS 1110
• Professor: Shelley Rabinovich

Document Summary

Franz anton mezmer (austrian late 1800s early 1900s) Class notes: western science medicine - human personality - medical doctor, back then, they didn"t have painkillers, they would give patients a piece of wood in their mouths. When mezmer would travel, he would bring andre with him: during the sessions, mezmer would ask a series of questions and andre would react accordingly. James braid: to calm patients, uses magnets, he acknowledges that they are more than one state of consciousness. Is about relaxation rather than the use of magnets. If you are hypnotizable, you have to allow yourself to be hypnotized: mezmer calls the method mezmerism, charity case guinea pig for mezmer with mezmer"s questions. In some ways, mezmer was right: not everyone can be hypnotized, sleep talking/sleep walking is not an a. s. c. because you are unconscious, all these things humans do that have no explanations for consciousness.