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What is Hypnosis? Studies in Conditioning
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106 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1944
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January 25, 2012
Graduating with a masters degree in psychology, I expected to stay in New York City, join the Institutes for Religion and Health and begin working as a psychotherapist, preferably for a not-for-profit which would charge clients on a sliding scale, allowing me not to think about money. What happened, however, is that the religious denomination I had been under the care of ceased providing psychological services and I, having fallen in love with a hometown girl, moved back to Chicago.
Once back in Illinois I discovered something no one had ever mentioned in my psych program, viz. state licensure requirements. Apparently my degree meant something in New York. Looking for a job in Cook County revealed that it meant nothing in Illinois. The only job offers I got were in drug "rehabilitation" and in criminal "corrections"--jobs I would probably be fired from once I opened my mouth. I ended up as a lowly childcare worker for, first, the Jewish Children's Bureau and, second, The Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, serving in both cases adolescent males who had been diagnosed psychotic and who, in the main, weren't.
Distressed by disappointed job expectations, burdened by six monthly school loan repayments and abandoned by the girl I'd returned to Chicago for, I decided, fitfully, to get my hand back in the psychology game by reading more in the field. Salter's was the first book I picked up.
Once back in Illinois I discovered something no one had ever mentioned in my psych program, viz. state licensure requirements. Apparently my degree meant something in New York. Looking for a job in Cook County revealed that it meant nothing in Illinois. The only job offers I got were in drug "rehabilitation" and in criminal "corrections"--jobs I would probably be fired from once I opened my mouth. I ended up as a lowly childcare worker for, first, the Jewish Children's Bureau and, second, The Mission of Our Lady of Mercy, serving in both cases adolescent males who had been diagnosed psychotic and who, in the main, weren't.
Distressed by disappointed job expectations, burdened by six monthly school loan repayments and abandoned by the girl I'd returned to Chicago for, I decided, fitfully, to get my hand back in the psychology game by reading more in the field. Salter's was the first book I picked up.
February 11, 2016
This is a short book that asserts hypnosis is a type of conditioning a la Pavlov.
December 12, 2020
Andrew Salter, now considered one of the founders of behaviour therapy, published this short book in 1950. A strong opponent of Freudian psychoanalysis, Salter was convinced that hypnosis was a far more potent tool for solving people's problems, such as insomnia, smoking, stuttering and so on. He presents a number of examples of successes in the field, including some remarkable experiments that showed how patients could auto-hypnotise themselves into not feeling physical pain.
Writing the book shortly after the Second World War -- and with the Korean war now raging -- he argued for the possible usefulness of his research for military purposes. Soldiers, he wrote, "can quickly be taught to make themselves immune to such sounds and pains as they wish. It is not impossible to imagine battalions of self-anaesthetized soldiers going into battle."
Salter was also convinced that hypnotised individuals could be induced to perform acts that ran contrary to their morals, or that caused them harm. He was convinced that subjects could be turned into criminals -- even murderers -- in the hands of a capable hypnotist. No wonder his work is cited by the fictional Communist Chinese villain Yen Lo in the book and film versions of The Manchurian Candidate.
Writing the book shortly after the Second World War -- and with the Korean war now raging -- he argued for the possible usefulness of his research for military purposes. Soldiers, he wrote, "can quickly be taught to make themselves immune to such sounds and pains as they wish. It is not impossible to imagine battalions of self-anaesthetized soldiers going into battle."
Salter was also convinced that hypnotised individuals could be induced to perform acts that ran contrary to their morals, or that caused them harm. He was convinced that subjects could be turned into criminals -- even murderers -- in the hands of a capable hypnotist. No wonder his work is cited by the fictional Communist Chinese villain Yen Lo in the book and film versions of The Manchurian Candidate.
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