Hypnotism

"You 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, …

…Freud's "free association" and "dream interpretation" techniques were substitutes for his inability to create the state of heightened suggestibility in his patients, which often can be attained through hypnosis. He was a most complex man, full of contradictions who created a new branch of medical science called, "psychoanalysis." Interested individuals might also wish to research the works of Dr. Hippolite Bernhiem, Dr. James Esdalie, Dr. Eugene Azam, Emile Coue and several other sources for relate