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Middle Class Women Lower Class Women
784 wordsThe Bostonian's by Henry James was a very interesting piece. James' underlying tone for the spiritualism and mesmerism is clearly a picture of the time when the piece was written. I thought that is played an important influence in his writing. Ruth Hall by Fanny Fern is an unofficial biography of her own life as a women activist. One of the underlying issues that stands out from her novel is the way that she includes the lower-class women right along with the middle-class. This was not a common ...
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Scientific Community American Medical
1,026 wordsThe Encarta Encyclopedia defines hypnosis as, altered state of consciousness and heightened responsiveness to suggestion; it may be induced by normal persons by a variety of methods and has been used occasionally in medical and psychiatric treatment. Most frequently brought about through actions of an operator, or hypnotist, who engages the attention of a subject and assigns certain tasks to him or her while uttering monotonous, repetitive verbal commands; such tasks may include muscle relaxatio...
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19 Th Century Medical Association
1,440 wordsHypnosis The British Medical Association and the American Medical Association has called it a temporary condition of altered attention in the subject that may be induced by another person, (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia) but there is still much about hypnosis that not understood. Because it resembles normal sleep, it was studied and was found that terrain waves of hypnotized people are more similar to the patterns of deep relaxation than anything else. Rather than a psychic or mystical idea,...
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19 Th Century British Medical
1,466 wordsThe British Medical Hypnosis Hypnosis The British Medical Association and the American Medical Association has called it a temporary condition of altered attention in the subject that may be induced by another person, (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia) but there is still much about hypnosis that is not understood. Because it resembles normal sleep, it was studied and was found that the brain waves of hypnotized people are more similar to the patterns of deep relaxation than anything else. Rathe...
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Period Of Time Nineteenth Century
1,535 wordsYou are completely relaxed there is a wonderful warm feeling spreading through your body. you have a great desire to sleep your eyelids are getting heavy heavier and heavier you hardly can keep them open any longer now they are closed with every word I am saying, you are getting sleepier. and sleepier. you are going to SLEEP deep, sound sleep deeper and deeper asleep SLEEP! You just read the exact words of a hypnotist, using the classical technique of verbal suggestion. His subject is sound asle...
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Enlightenment In France Kornmann And Bergasse Mesmerism
1,458 wordsIn his book, Mesmerism and the Enlightenment in France, Robert Dranton attempts to explain the mentality of the pre-Revolution Frenchman. He uses th e theory and expansions of Franz Anton Mesmer. In his noble effort, Dranton explains the frantic nature of the educated Frenchman at this time and since he has chosen specific eye to see through, his intention is satisfied. He also shows how the radical branches of mesmerism carried on long after the revolution and affected the thinking of many grea...
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