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A History of Hypnotism
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A History of Hypnotism, Alan Gauld's 1992 study from Cambridge University Press, traces the descent from eighteenth century animal magnetism through to modern hypnosis by a historian of psychology. Its strength is its close, source based attention to two centuries of documented claims and counterclaims, treated with equal scrutiny rather than credulity or dismissal. Its limit is that any single volume survey of two centuries cannot match a specialist study of one particular episode; no web page is cited here because a work of this kind is properly verified through the book itself.
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Alan Gauld's A History of Hypnotism, published by Cambridge University Press in 1992, the top tier reflecting a full length academic monograph from a major university press by a historian of psychology, resting on close, source based attention to two centuries of documented claims and counterclaims treated with even scrutiny. NotesTraces the descent from animal magnetism to hypnosis, with close attention to the evidence.
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AuthorAlan Gauld
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year1992
Source Typeacademic monograph
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- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Historical Figures, 1 claims: 1 general references.
- Practices, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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