Who Discovered Hypnosis and How It Works

Hypnosis is a state that resembles a dream whether it actually causes a person (the hypnotist) whose suggestions the subject of hypnosis readily accepts. Hypnotized person responds to the automatic mode, ignoring aspects of the environment that does not indicate a hypnotist.

How was discovered hypnosis
Even in primitive peoples were known to be a certain way can influence the behavior and feelings of people with the performance of certain rituals and using a variety of hallucinogenic plants.

Hypnosis has a history old as the witchcraft and magic. In the second half of the 18th century, in Vienna, Franz Mesmer began to apply hypnosis on mentally disturbed persons but failed to scientifically examine. He believed that it is an unnatural force that exceeds from hypnotist to the person who is mesmerizing and it is called “animal magnetism”, but today by many hypnosis is called “mesmerize”.

Almost a century later, hypnosis has studied the Scottish surgeon James Bryde who tried to scientifically prove it. Then for the first time appear terms “hypnotism” and “hypnosis”. Sigmund Freud relied on hypnosis to study the subconscious, and was later used in medicine and psychology as a useful tool for calming patients and as anesthesia, to change unwanted behaviors and disclosure of repressed memories.

Even today we do not know how hypnotized man can shivers as if he was cold and he was sweating as if it’s hot, it turns pale as frightened or to blush as if ashamed, to recall the events from the past that are in “normal” the state would not be remembered.

There is no generally acceptable explanation of hypnosis, one prominent theory focuses on the possibility of dissociative disorders that affect parts of consciousness. Hypnosis is often applied by psychologists and psychiatrists, specially trained for this and with the written consent of the patients.

Few hypnosis facts: you cannot be made to enter hypnosis against your will, you are in control at all times while in hypnosis, you can access information in the subconscious mind.