The Uncanny Rise of Medical Hypnotism, 1888–1914
Between Imagination and Suggestion
Gordon David Lyle Bates
The Uncanny Rise of Medical Hypnotism, 1888–1914
Between Imagination and Suggestion
Gordon David Lyle Bates
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This book explores the improbable rise of medical hypnotism in Victorian Britain and its subsequent assimilation and neglect. They had to confront the many public and medical prejudices against the trance state which had persisted after the scandalous disgrace of John Elliotson and medical mesmerism, fifty years before.
Gordon Bates is a Consultant Psychiatrist and Postdoctoral Researcher at Birkbeck, University of London, in the UK. He was made a fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and has held posts at the Universities of Birmingham and Warwick. Gordon has published over twenty articles in scientific journals and contributed chapters to edited books. He is the medical humanities editor of the journal, Child and Adolescent Mental Health.