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An Evaluation

SYDNEY E. PULVER, MD; LAUREN H. SMITH, MD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1965;12(6):557-561.

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AS WITH ANY potent therapeutic measure, the values and dangers surrounding the use of hypnosis depend in large measure on both the training and the integrity of personality of the physician using it. One can detect in many quarters today a skepticism about the motivations and perhaps even the professional soundness of physicians who use hypnosis. Much of this is a reflection of the mystic aura which has surrounded hypnosis for centuries, an outdated but persistent attitude. It is in addition a reflection of an understandable concern lest hypnosis, a very potent psychic phenomenon, be used in the fulfillment of the physician's own needs to the detriment of his patient.

Most of the current reports dealing with the personality of the hypnotist reflect this skepticism. In general, he is presented from the standpoint of his problems. For example, Levinson,¹ who interviewed and psychologically . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov 23, 1964.

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