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of sexual perversion. I may also mention Freud and Breuer, who recommend a peculiar
method of treatment, the cathartic; also Frey, Schnitzler, F. Muller, Donath,
Mosing. Ziemssen, Nothnagel, Seeligmuller, Benedikt, Koberlin, Richter, Schultze, Windscheid and others set their faces most decidedly against the therapeutic use of hypnosis. Some emphasized its dangers, while others gave prominence to its uselessness. The cursory nature of the work upon which many of these assumptions were based was soon demonstrated. For example, it was shown by Schrenck-Notzing that Friedrich, a pupil of Ziemssen's, who had particularly animadverted on the dangers of hypnotism, was himself "a transgressor against the most elementary demands of those who advocated hypnotherapeutic interference in the treatment of disease." Putting aside the numerous works which deal exclusively with hypnotism, we find this subject discussed in many books chiefly concerned with other themes. I may mention the various works on nervous and mental diseases. Hirt and Mobius, likewise Gowers and Oppenheiner, have inserted more or less comprehensive chapters on hypnotism in their works. The same is true of many writers on psychiatrics; for example, Krafft-Ebing and Kraepelin, both of whom mention the therapeutic value of hypnosis in their books. The value of hypnosis when other means fail is admitted by Sommer HISTORY OF HYPNOTISM. 25 though Kirchhoff, in his Psychiatrie, treats hypnosis as being more a psychological phenomenon. We also find hypnotism discussed in works dealing specially with nervous diseases; in Miller's Handbuch der Neurasthenie there is an extensive chapter by Schrenck-Notzing on hypnotic and especially suggestive therapeutics. Borel, also, in his book, Nervosisme ou Neurasthinie, deals briefly with treatment by suggestion, which he conditionally allows ; as also does Lcewenfeld in his book on hysteria and neurasthenia. Hypnotism is fully dealt with by Pitres in his work on hysteria and hypnotic treatment, by Binswanger in his great treatise on the same subject, in which he justly only covers a portion of psycho-therapeutics. Occasionally we find hypnosis thoroughly discussed in other medical works ; for example, in Eulenburg and Samuel's comprehensive treatise, Allgemeine Therapie, in which the section on psycho-therapeutics is written by Ziehen. The question is similarly treated in Eulenburg's Real-Enzykloplidie, and in the Enzyklopddischen |
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