Hypnotism Today

hypnotic Suggestion, Autohypnosis and Autosuggestion " Theories of Hypnosis " A System of Brief Hypnoanalysis " and " Research in Hypnotism There is also a tolerably complete bibliography. It may be a matter of surprise to many analytical psychotherapists at the present day, who have assimilated the teachings of Freud and other leading exponents of deep mental analysis, that there could still be a public, and a need, for such a book as this. But, quite apart from the desirability or undesirability of the application of the method of hypnotism in modern psychotherapy, there continues to be an emphatic need for the adequate understanding of hypnosis, its laws, and its relation to kindred states of mind. No modern psychologist can afford to be ignorant of the subject, and no modern psychologist can evade the question of the normality or abnormality of the state of hypnosis or the justification of the use of hypnotism in special cases. As an exposition of almost all sides of the subject this book is excellent. Where it falls short is in an inadequate appreciation of the practical and medical (not the merely theoretical) differences of mild states of hypnosis