History Of Hypnosis

In the early days, the healers and priests had established the sleeping temples which were very popular in Egypt, Greece and India. The similar concept also prevailed in Persian culture as well. A psychologist whose name was Avicenna said there is a difference between the state of hypnosis and the state of sleep.

Paracelsus said that the heavenly bodies have some affect on the human disease. Mesmer who was a psychologist of the 18th century stated that the magnets have some healing effect on humans. These magnets act as the magnetic fluids in the body.

After that, many people came who opposed this theory. However, others approved this theory and they improved it further. There came many theories with the passage of time but hypnotism was established now. A psychologist, James Braid, adopted mesmerism and he called it hypnotism.

The word "hypnotism" means sleep. James Braid discovered that hypnotism is not the true sleep but it is some sort of drowsiness. In this state, the mind of a human being is beyond consciousness. The reason is that the mind at this stage reaches a higher level of concentration.

Sigmund Freud, the biggest name in the field of hypnosis, believed in reaching the root cause of any reason. He used the method of hypnosis to get rid of the symptoms that were creating problems. He did long conversations with patients so that patient would open before him and told him about his feelings. He called this method talking cure and this method is still in use. And it is still considered a very popular one.