RHETOR 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hypersensitivity, Fortune-Telling, Sleepwalking
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1st dp was produced by cumulative work of many pioneers. Main tenets by mesmer and puysegur, followed by many laymen and physicians. 1880, upsurge felt and first dp given university acknowledgement with. 1784-1880 somnambulism was chief method of gaining access into the unconscious mind, first called perfect crisis by puysegur, later given name hypnotism by braid in 1843. Nature of condition was disputed between fluidists (explained in terms of alleged magnetic fluid) and animists (psychological phenomenon) Identity of the nature of spontaneous somnambulism never seriously questioned main arguments in favor of that conception summarized by. Artificial (directed and under control of the magnetizer) vs. natural somnambulism. Posthypnotic amnesia: subject recalls nothing after the session. Posthypnotic suggestion: subject would execute an order given during the session while awake. First used mesmer"s technique, abandoned for other 2 (1) fascination: look at a fixed or slightly moving point, technique combined with verbal order terminate by blowing on the subject"s eyes.
