Hypnotism / by Albert Moll.

  • Moll, Albert.
Date:
1890
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    cient stress laid upon it, and in consequence many hypnotic experiments may have remained fruitless. Many other investigators, following the example of Forel, have made experiments in medical treatment by hypnotism in Germany lately ; among them may be especially mentioned : Sperling, Nonne, Michael, Hess, Schrenck-Notzing, Hosslin, Baierlacher (who became known by his discovery of reaction of degeneration, and who, unfortunately, died a short time ago), Corval, Schuster, Hirt, Ad. Barth, Brligel- mann. We find likewise a number of physicians in Austria active in the same field ; Krafft-Ebing, Freud, Frey, Schnitzler, and F. Miiller may be named. Other men—for example, Ziemssen, See- ligmuller, Koberlin—set their faces most decidedly against the therapeutic use of hypnotism. Other authors, again, worked at the particular subjects . which have a relation to hypnotism without laying special stress on its therapeutic value; and here the works of Forel, Lilienthal, and Rieger must be named, which inquired into the legal side of the question. Krafft-Ebing published an extremely de- tailed experimental study of one case; Max Dessoir compiled a valuable Bibliography of Modern Hypno- tism ; further, Bleuler, Hiickel, Maack, Weiss, Sallis, Dreher, may be mentioned. In spite of the great importance of hypno- tism to therapeutics, I think it a great mistake when some doctors fix the therapeutic value of hypnotism as the standard by which it is to be judged ; and here another factor—the founding of an experimental psychology—may be well taken into consideration. As a matter of fact, a large number of investigators have recognized the great value of hypnotism, particularly in this direction—above all,