Hypnosis - from witchcraft to scientific therapy

Freud (psychologist) Freud used hypnosis to free hysteria patients' sexual inhibition. However, he later gave up this therapy because it was easy to have sex between the doctor and the patient - a taboo.

Freud once said that hypnosis can explain all the worlds within people. But with the hypnosis itself, we still have not explained whether this technique appeared from ancient times.

(Photo: tripod.com) From ancient times, Egyptian and Jewish priests used a strange method to lure people in prayer sessions as well as to cure illnesses. They use a technique that haunts the listener by pleading with the gods to support and the mantra, metaphor.

In the 15th century, a monk in Rome sought to explain this phenomenon without using theological theory. He did a famous experiment: Leaving a hen on his back on a wooden board and always looking into the eyes of the chicken. After a while, the chicken is still, like sleeping and want to wake it up, it must have a slight impact on the animal.

Similar experiments are also done with many animals such as reptiles, fish, frogs, insects . When the experimental animals are placed in an unusual posture, it falls into a static, pretending state. death, or hypnosis.

In nature, animals sometimes fall into that state when they feel dangerous, such as fake mice dying when caught by cats.

It is said that when people stand in front of an unexpected and fearful risk, they often show up in the same position as animals, accompanied by muscle stiffness, trembling, protruding eyes . It can be considered as a first study of hypnosis from a scientific perspective.

Transmission by rope . affection

A turning point occurred in the 18th century when French scientist F.Anton Mesmer introduced theory from gas. In his experiment, he placed magnets on the patients and discovered their bodies that showed mutations that disappeared the symptoms.

From there, he concluded, there is some kind of material that envelops everything that exists, creating an environment that encompasses and interacts. Poor air distribution will lead to illness; regulating from gas produces mutations and brings health. Therefore, he used magnets to reconstruct the magnetic balance.

But there is a contradiction that he cannot explain, that is, even without a magnet, the healing effect is the same. It turns out, the healing effect is not related to normal magnetism; and he came up with a new concept: from the force created by the creature, called from the animal gas.

Mesmer organized collective healing sessions. The patient was seated around a large pot of water, a piece of glass, gravel, iron filings . Mesmer and used iron wires to connect them to the 'magnetic pot' , holding a magnetic wand and go around them, causing seizures. This phenomenon even continues even when the patient has been separated from the patient.

He came up with a conclusion that aroused the scientific world, that is, from animal gases that do not depend very much on the nature of transmitters, but in the first place due to the . emotional strings. Only emotion can explain this most easily, as evidenced by his familiar patients feeling more effective.

Mesmer's theory of animal gases caused intense controversy that King Louis 16 had to establish two scientific councils to find out about this. Finally, scientists have concluded that there are no animal gases, which is the "imagination" of the patient. However, they also acknowledge that the psychological impact between one person and another is real and also describes how women are disturbed when men are transmitted from the air, warning that it could harm Germany. their happiness.

Based on the theory, people discovered the mystery of ' hypnotic sleep ' (the hypnotized person fell into a half-awake state, half-asleep, no seizures, became easily and relied entirely on the consciousness of the hypnotist but when he wakes up, he doesn't remember anything). Scientists also recommend building intimate feelings between patients and physicians, needing to consider patients as "part of themselves" , the treatment will be more effective. Secret 'how much so many cases have arisen sexual relationships condemned public opinion.

Hypnosis - the forerunner of psychoanalysis

At the end of the 19th century, hypnosis made public a fever because of its effectiveness in the treatment of mental disorders such as hysteria, libido (illnesses at that time were thought to be " ghosts "). Freud studied thoroughly hysteria disease and used hypnosis to free the patient's sexual inhibition. His hypothetical hypnosis method aims to ' eliminate ' to release pathogens, help patients to evoke and to relive traumatized conditions, then erase this impact.

In subsequent studies, Freud found hypnosis unapplied; success is just the exception. On the other hand, the relationship formed during the hypnosis process easily leads to sexual intercourse, a taboo in the physician-patient relationship. Once after Freud cured a female patient, when she awoke to hypnosis, she hugged him and made him extremely confused and ' difficult to resist '. So Freud decided to give up on hypnosis and explore a new horizon as the "presence behind the mystery of hypnosis". It is psychoanalysis with secrets about the darkness of emotions.