Franz Mesmer
Father of Hypnotism
What is he famous for?
Mesmerism: or to most people hypnotism
Hypnosis: The induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction. Its use in therapy, typically to recover suppressed memories or to allow modification of behavior by suggestion, has been revived but is still controversial.
Animal Magnetism: Supposed emanation to which the action of hypnotism was ascribed.
Hypnosis: The induction of a state of consciousness in which a person apparently loses the power of voluntary action and is highly responsive to suggestion or direction. Its use in therapy, typically to recover suppressed memories or to allow modification of behavior by suggestion, has been revived but is still controversial.
Animal Magnetism: Supposed emanation to which the action of hypnotism was ascribed.
How did his research effect psychological thought?
- illness can have different reasons
- it`s not just physical
- Connection between the body and energy
- increase their horizon
How does his research effect the average person?
Today even though it is controversial hypnotism is used in therapy to bring suppressed memories back so that way they may be fixed by the therapist or brought to attention to the patient. It is used by people to make people do things against their will as well.
How is their research effected by the time period in which they lived?
- Isaac Newton
- New insights: electricity, gravity, magnetism
- Very religious: reasons for illness were ascribed to bad power (devil)
belief in miracles
- We're not able to make experiments as good as we are