Estabrooks, George HBiblio.com
[HYPNOTISM] QUACKENBOS, John DuncanBiblio.com
Hypnotic Therapeutics in Theory and Practice; With numerous illustrations of Treatment by Suggestion
190782225New York: Harper & Brothers 1907. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's ribbed maroon cloth titled in gilt to spine and front board. iii 336pp. Minor wear and scuffing to extremities bumping to spine ends a little rubbing of the gilt to the spine panel a good strong copy. Top edge gilt. Internally clean edges untrimmed a little light toning to prelims. Brentano's bookseller label to rear pastedown. Essentially an examination of the usefulness of hypnotism and suggestive medicine in treating mental health issues although Quackenbos characterizes them as moral and emotional issues. As with his previous work he has something of a preoccupation with using hypnosis to "correct" moral or behavioral variations or deviations which is pretty obviously a slippery slope and entirely dependent on how one defines a moral or emotional deviation. His interpretation of states is interesting he has more of a focussed of observance on the differing levels or states of hypnotic trance and his use of "transliminal" states to designate grades of altered consciousness was actually for the time a very interesting concept seeing as many exponents of hypnosis didn't differentiate so specifically between variations in trance state. His development of hypnotism as a technique for getting people to behave and not rock the boat however is one that brings up a wriggling mass of potential ethical and moral worms. Harper & Brothers unknown
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