Hypnosis lessons by stage magnetizers: Medical and lay hypnotists in Spain

Graus, Andrea

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“…Symbiosen mellan vetenskap, underhållning och mystik var ett säljande koncept, ibland förstärkt genom att estradören gav sig själv professorstitel, för att skänka åtråvärd akademisk glans och auktoritet åt förevisningarna. 42 Hur det publika intresset för Hansens seanser såg ut går inte att få en enhetlig bild av i pressen. Medan vissa skribenter lyfte Hansens världsberömmelse och sin stora förväntan inför att själva få uppleva experimenten fanns det andra som just verkade ha hört talas om honom.…”

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In the late winter of 1887, Danish hypnotizer Carl Hansen toured southern Sweden, mesmerizing large crowds with his spectacular stage performances. In the 1880s, hypnotism peaked both as a new and promising medical treatment and as popular entertainment. This article examines stage hypnotism in Sweden, a well-known phenomenon at the time but strangely ignored in historical research. While medical hypnosis has been studied to some extent, the meaning and impact of popular hypnotism is virtually unknown. Hansen was one of the most famous European hypnotizers and his influence on medical hypnosis has been underlined in international research. By focusing on Hansen, through an analysis of Swedish press 1880–1889, the article will examine how stage hypnotism was assessed in a confluence of science and entertainment, typical of the time. The general aim is to highlight the role of stage hypnotism in the dynamic process of knowledge production in late 19th century Sweden.

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“…Ambos conquistaram notoriedade nos palcos, pois foram hipnotizadores de teatro, personagens que provocaram deslumbramento nas cortes e em meio à burguesia. O primeiro, conforme conta Mauro Vallejo (2018), após sair da Espanha para morar em Buenos Aires, ainda investiu na criação do Instituto Psicológico Argentino e manteve relações muito próximas com grupos espíritas (ver também Graus, 2017). Roberth, por sua vez, é um estranho personagem que desembarcou no Brasil, em meados de 1892, para apresentar seus trabalhos em psicologia experimental, hipnotismo, penetração do pensamento alheio, História, Ciências, Saúde -Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro matemática recreativa, entre outros (Rosa, 2020;Vallejo, 2018).…”

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O curandeiro charlatão e o messias de Campos: o caso do Professor Mozart, 1924-1939

Rosa

2022

Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos

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Resumo Em 1924, um personagem despontou na imprensa brasileira: o “Professor Mozart”. Seu nome era Mozart Dias Teixeira e, durante as décadas de 1920 e 1930, ele praticou curas em diversas cidades do país, provocando controvérsias entre setores da sociedade. O artigo analisa o caso, dividindo-se em três eixos: introduz o personagem e o debate sobre os seus métodos de cura, mostra como as polêmicas inspiraram produções artísticas que transitaram no seio da população e, por fim, discute a questão do charlatanismo e o problema da liberdade profissional e de culto. O estudo pretende ser uma contribuição à historiografia do espiritismo, do ocultismo e das ciências psíquicas no Brasil.

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“…Itinerant stage performers continued to demonstrate extraordinary phenomena, often combined with lectures about the process, sometimes accompanied by conjuring tricks and questionable claims. In doing so, they convinced the public of the power of hypnotism to control individuals and to elicit remarkable abilities, and continued to provoke both the curiosity and the hostility of scientists and medics (Brancaccio, 2017;Gauld, 1995;Graus, 2017). Hypnotists appeared as characters in novels, plays, and early films, most famously the character of Svengali (Andriopoulous, 2008;Pick, 2000;van Schlun, 2007).…”

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Hypnotism and Suggestion: A Historical Perspective

Lamont¹

2020

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology

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Franz Anton Mesmer’s theory of “animal magnetism” proposed that living organisms possess an invisible magnetic fluid, which can be influenced by a “magnetizer” and, by doing so, a variety of illnesses can be cured. Contemporaries, such as the Marquis de Puysegur, took a more psychological view, claiming that a state of “artificial somnambulism” could be induced, through which alternate states of consciousness, and clairvoyant powers, could be exhibited. Public demonstrations of mesmeric phenomena, from insensibility to pain to clairvoyance, convinced many that there was something to it, whether as a medical tool or, perhaps, as evidence of supernatural powers. The distinction between mesmerism and hypnotism, made explicit in the writings of James Braid, distinguished between such phenomena, attributing the latter to fraud, and the former to suggestion. With the decline of mesmerism, facilitated in part by Braid’s theory and the introduction of chemical anesthesia, the more extraordinary phenomena of mesmerism, and the concept of a mysterious force, became part of the spiritualist and mind-cure movements, and the basis of psychical research. In the last quarter of the 19th century, a revival of scientific interest in hypnotism in France led to a dispute between two schools of thought: in Paris, hypnosis was explained in terms of an inherited pathological disposition; in Nancy, it was regarded as a normal process, and the product of suggestion. Hypnosis was used to explore the “dissociation” of personality and “sub-conscious” processes, provoking various theories about alternate selves in the normal and abnormal mind. At the turn of the 20th century, while clinical interest continued, experimental interest turned to the concepts of suggestion and suggestibility, which had practical educational, political, legal, and commercial relevance. A new line of hypnosis research, based on experimental, quantitative methods with normal subjects, began in the United States in the 1920s, and concluded that hypnosis was nothing more than suggestion. In the second half of the century, renewed scientific interest led to competing theories that explained hypnosis either in terms of a hypnotic state or else in terms of social roles. The dispute between “state” and “no state” theories was accompanied by a debate over the existence of a stable individual trait that might explain individual differences in hypnotizability. Meanwhile, as the effects of social influence became a significant topic of study, the implications for psychology experiments were considered in terms of “demand characteristics” and “experimenter effects.” In the last quarter of the 20th century, there was significant interest in legal issues relating to hypnosis, particularly concerning “recovered memory,” and the accusation that false memories and multiple personalities were the product of suggestion. As debates about the nature of hypnosis continue, the descendants of mesmerism, from “anomalous cognition” to “social priming,” which provoked recent debates about the limits of psychological methods, demonstrate the ongoing relevance of studying the boundaries of the mind.

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Hypnosis lessons by stage magnetizers: Medical and lay hypnotists in Spain

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O curandeiro charlatão e o messias de Campos: o caso do Professor Mozart, 1924-1939

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