Modern Hypnotists

Sigmund Freud: Freud defined hypnosis as "the influencing of a person by means of the transference phenomena" although later in his Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1916-1917), he seems to acknowledge that hypnosis is more than a transference reaction. "There is an obvious kinship between the hypnotic state and the state of sleep. The physical situations in the two cases are really analogous. In natural sleep we withdraw our interest from the whole external world; and in hypnotic sleep we also withdraw it from the whole world, but with the single exception of the person who has hypnotised us and with who we remain in rapport."

Freud acknowledged that there is a great deal to hypnosis, which must be recognised as unexplained and mysterious. For a number of years Freud used hypnosis in his psychoanalytical work with patients and employed very authoritarian inductions, he would grasp a patient's head and command "sleep!" By 1921 Freud discontinued its use possibly because of the non-reception of his patients. Freud first defined the landscape of psychoanalytical enquiry into hypnosis.

Milton Eriksson: Eriksson is widely accepted as the father of modern day hypnotism. Eriksson believed that each treatment was unique for each client. Erikson understood that if hypnotism was to be widely accepted among the medical profession of physicians and dentists, he would have to find a way to circumvent those aspects of semi traditional and traditional hypnotism that were unacceptable to these men and women.

Milton Erikson's work from the past has become to be known as "Eriksonian hypnotism" or the "Eriksonian approach to therapy" with the introduction of the forms of indirect suggestion and informal trance inductions. The NLP movement, who adopted much of Erikson's work, did much to establish the Eriksonian approach. The Eriksonian Foundation in Phoenix around 1980 further helped to promote and spread his work around the world and gradually it became the accepted practice and process for hypnotism.

Modern Hypnotists

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