The New Master Course In Hypnotism E-Book

Harry Arons

• Herausgeber: Youcanprint
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This book is my course in essence. The induction techniques and other important material have been transcribed from recordings of actual class sessions. Lacking only the practice sessions, the visual demon­strations on student-subjects and the question and an­swer periods, the "New Master Course in Hypnotism" is one of the first attempts to present a comprehensive hypnosis course in book form. In this sense, it is a "Textbook of Hypnotism."

Leseprobe

Contents

Author's Preface

Foreword

Introduction

Historical Outline

LESSON

1. Preliminary Suggestibility Tests (What To Do Before Hypnotizing)

2. Preliminary Suggestibility Tests (A Screening Procedure)

3. Preliminary Suggestibility Tests (Progressive Relaxation Test)

4. Recognition and Classification of Subjects (Qualifications of a Subject)

5. Favorable and Unfavorable Influences

6. Dangers of Hypnotism and How to Avoid Them

7. Psychology of Hypnotism (Suggestion)

8. Induction Techniques (How to Hypnotize)

9. Induction Techniques (Standard Methods)

10. Induction Techniques (Basic Methods)

11. Stages of Hypnosis

12. Phenomena of Hypnosis

13. Advanced Methods (Permissive InductionTechniques)

14. Instantaneous Methods, Indirect Methods, Waking Hypnosis

15. Eight Best Techniques for Deepening Hypnosis

16. Practical Uses of Hypnosis [Function ofthe Hypnosis Technician (Cases)]

17. Practical Uses of Hypnosis [Non-Therapeutic Applications (Cases)]

ADDENDA

The New Master Course In Hypnotism

This book is dedicated to the real pioneers inthe field of hypnotism, THE LAYMENwho labored long and hard, braving age-oldprejudices, to gain acceptance ofhypnosis by the public and the medicaland dental professions . . . and whonow face an uncertain future.

Preface

I started teaching hypnosis in 1934 on a small scale; my first class was a mixed group of professional people. During the three years prior to that I had obtained my own training in hypnosis, mainly via the meager supply of available books on the subject, since schools of in­struction were unknown at that time. Indeed, I had heard of only four professional hypnotists active in this country during this period, three of them stage hypno­tists and one a “doctor” practicing hypnotherapy who was later exposed as a fraud; I was not aware of any physicians, dentists or psychologists openly employing hypnosis at that time, though it is probable that some unobtrusive application of hypnosis by professional (medical) operators was in progress.

In 1941 I published a 64-page booklet called “Mas­ter Course in Hypnotism.” It was intended mainly for use as a syllabus of my course. However, upon urging by some of my students, I revised the booklet in 1948, added photographic illustrations, and made it available to the public through normal distribution channels. It underwent another revision in 1955 and became the main “text book” that I included with my courses. Early in 1960 I took it off the market completely pend­ing the extensive revision that was badly needed and long overdue.

In more than a quarter of a century of teaching, my course of personal instruction was modified many times. I made a special point of familiarizing myself with other courses being offered, both to professionals and to laymen; I took special note of the inadequacies of these courses as well as of their good points. I in­corporated the important material and eliminated dis­cussions of theory and other unnecessary verbiage. Gradually, my course developed into a thoroughly or­ganized and complete course in scientific ethical hyp­nosis. Its superiority to other courses has been attested to by professional and lay students who have taken the best of the others and are therefore deemed qualified to judge.

This book is my course in essence. The induction techniques and other important material have been transcribed from tape recordings of actual class sessions. Lacking only the practice sessions, the visual demon­strations on student-subjects and the question and an­swer periods, the “New Master Course in Hypnotism” is one of the first attempts to present a comprehensive hypnosis course in book form. In this sense, it is a “Textbook of Hypnotism.”

Harry Arons

Irvington, N. J. January, 1961

Foreword

Were the reader to have the privilege of comparing the various professional courses in hypnosis being of­fered today with the course for which Harry Arons has become known, he would find a number of significant differences. I have found only one of these to be on the negative side—the fact that Arons does not teach medi­cine, dentistry or psychology.

His reason for this lack is simple: he is not a physician, nor a dentist, nor a psychologist; moreover, he assumes that his professional “pupils” are already competent in their respective fields—and he therefore devotes himself to teaching hypnosis, induction tech­niques and important related material.

Dr. Charles F. Mayer of Dallas, Texas, sums it up succinctly in a letter to Arons when he says: ”. . . when a potential practitioner attends a seminar, he is pri­marily interested in learning techniques—and that is what you teach so effectively. I have attended several seminars given by other groups, but I can truly say that yours is the best and most practical course I know of today.”

There are many things in this book that the reader will appreciate. Outside of a brief historical outline, all the unessentials have been left out. There is barely a mention of theories—because none of them answers the question “What is hypnosis?” For controversial as­pects, the reader is referred to the more academic works on the subject,

On the plus side, the most outstanding thing about this book is the crystal-clear exposition of the induc­tion techniques. Arons' “3-step procedure” forms an excellent foundation for the performance of the induc­tion technique of one's choice in a logical manner, thus avoiding the subject's adverse reactions to ridiculous induction affirmations. For the standard methods, he selects the three he considers best in this category; his presentation of the advanced techniques, the permis­sive methods, the indirect (disguised) procedures with the appropriate variations that arise, leaves nothing to be desired. Each method is presented exactly as I saw it demonstrated in class, with the word-for-word, step-by-step detail that is so helpful to the student. I consider Arons' course the most methodical and thoroughly organized course available today.

This book is the main text of the Scientific Medical Hypnosis Seminars, which I direct. I am quite content to let Arons teach the techniques. This permits me to devote my energies more exclusively to the applications of hypnosis in medical and dental practice, and to the demonstrations of rapid induction which I consider so essential to making hypnosis a practical modality in the healing arts.

Maurice E. Bryant, M.D.

Clinical Associate in General Practice

School of Medicine, University of

Washington; Director, Scientific Medical

Hypnosis Seminars

Lawyers and judges deal daily with the psychology of human behavior. Should it be a matter of interro­gation, then those of the legal fraternity should interest themselves in the subject of hypnotism. In the modern day, when the ancient concept of immediate bodily punishment and deprivation of free association with others is tempered with the endeavor to first ascertain, if possible, the causative mental factors which may have led to the overt physical act, it is well-nigh imperative that the law-enforcement officials, the attorneys and the judges, possess some degree of understanding of the hu­man tendency to suggestive response. And this under­standing, to be of value, must not be confined to theory alone, but must embrace a practical knowledge of the complete hypnotic methodology and the correct sug­gestive techniques. My acquirement of a fair degree of that knowledge and understanding, under the tutelage of the author of this work, furnishes the justification for this foreword.

Forty years in the realm of the law has impressed upon me the virtue of brevity. Brevity, as the word is here employed, signifies the ability to state or demon­strate the subject matter in a concise and succinct man­ner without loss of the essentials. Consequently, it is natural for me, in perusing a publication, to seek brevity without loss of essentials.

I have found that quality in this volume. In this treatise the author, Harry Arons, has very thoroughly and effectively eliminated all padding and irrelevant matter, while, at the same time, preserving all the req­uisites for a complete mastery of the art of scientific hypnosis. In days gone by the mention of the word “hypnotism” immediately conjured up thoughts and associations of the occult and quackery. Today we know that hypnotism is a definitely established scien­tific topic with no residence in the realm of mysticism. The approach and presentation of the subject in the present work is definite and scientific.

Hypnotism—that is, the art of practical hypnotism —partakes of scientific rules and formulae, but hypno­sis—that is, the mental condition of the individual—is a thing natural to all normal persons, regardless of in­tellectual attainments or field of endeavor. It is as natural as the mind itself. Suggestibility is a normal characteristic of the mind. All about us, in every day life, the principles of hypnotism are evident, though for the most part, unnoticed. Our very surroundings, conversations, and activities constantly offer hypnotic suggestion. Frequently we hear of the “road hypnosis” of the auto operator. The daily sustained and repeated advertising on radio and TV subjects the listeners to many forms of hypnotic suggestions which, in many cases, are acted upon with no conscious realization by the listener. While not universally adopted, the fact of hypnosis is increasingly being employed in our schools to the end of molding and formulating human person­alities and instilling individual confidence. Thus it seems wholly unrealistic to say that hypnosis should be confined to the healing arts. The very nature of hyp­nosis, the fact that it is a natural phenomenon which may be induced in natural and imperceptible ways, and the fact of the limitless phases of its beneficial effects, renders ludicrous the thought that it is subject to cap­tivity by special interests or for a special purpose. A knowledge of hypnotism and self-hypnosis and how to use and apply it and, if need be, guard against it, is therefore, even more important to the layman than to the professional.

Here, in the pages of this book, will be found a practical “college education” in the art of scientific hypnotism. The curriculum is complete and thorough in every requisite detail. The author instructor gives forth that which is born of a lifetime devotion to the hypnotic skills and many years of rich and varied prac­tical and theoretical experience in the art of hypnotism, self-hypnosis, and hypnotic procedures. Emphasis is laid on the actual techniques of inducing the hypnotic state. The majority of the many volumes on hypnosis give little in the way of precise methodology, devoting only a few paragraphs to actual technique. The student of such books is understandably left in a bewildered state. He is sure to lose the essential factor of prestige because of his hesitancy and uncertainty brought about by a lack of full knowledge of the correct inductive proce­dure. The volume you have before you contains full, detailed, and complete techniques, with the actual wording successfully used by the author himself. For the first time, to my knowledge, it presents the three important steps requisite for sound, scientific, hypnotic induction. Many other innovations in inductive proce­dures and methods, waking hypnosis, speed hypnosis, and allied phases will be found herein.

The “credits” which are possible from a study of this admirable work depend entirely upon the attitude, the desire, the sincerity, the zeal, the honesty, and the persistence of the student. The success of any given technique depends largely upon the basic ability of the hypnotist to speak and act in the most effective manner at the most effective time. It will be found, as I have found, that the study and practice of the methods given in this book will be greatly enhanced by listening to the several phonograph records produced by the author. It is impossible to get the voice inflection, the timing of the routine, and the facility of delivery from the cold print on the page. The simultaneous visual and audi­tory approach afforded by this book and the records provides a remarkably effective combination.

Even if the student or investigator lacks any desire for actual, practical application of the extensive induc­tion procedures herein found, a deep enjoyment and great personal assurance will be the reward supplied by the knowledge derived from the reading and study of this instructive and intensely interesting master work.

Dewey Kelley

Judge, Indiana Appellate

Court

This is outstandingly the clearest, soundest, and most practical book which I have seen on how to hyp­notize. It is written in straight-forward, readily under­standable style. It uses admirable teaching techniques. It is remarkably free from the irrelevant, superficial, and dubious material which so often pads out books on this subject.

It has been my privilege to collaborate with Harry Arons in several seminars in which the materials in this book were used. I can testify to the extraordinary effectiveness of these techniques, to the enthusiasm which their demonstration aroused in the participants in the seminar, and to the great practical value of the methods of autohypnosis which Mr. Arons has de­veloped.

Hornell Hart, Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus of SociologyDuke University;

Author of “Autoconditioning:

The New Way to aSuccessful Life”

THIS IS NOT AN APOLOGY . . .

THIS BOOK is not intended to be a literary masterpiece —and this note is not an apology for its literary im­perfections.

The New Master Course in Hypnotism is intended to impart the hypnotic techniques in as effective a man­ner as possible. Judging from the way the author's personal instruction has been received, it has been con­sidered advisable to transfer his oral instructions to the printed page with a minimum of editing. The ma­jor portion of the instruction material has therefore been transcribed directly from tape recordings made at various of his seminars all over the country. These parts of the book “sound like Harry Arons talking,” in the words of one reviewer. This kind of “talking” may de­tract from proper literary construction. It is our hope, however, that the advantages of “listening” to “Harry Arons talking” before his classes will outweigh the literary defects of the book.

Introduction

To my knowledge, The Master Course in Hypnotism is the first organized text book on the subject. It differs from others in that it contains detailed instruction for inducing hypnosis as well as a large number of meth­ods. The course in its present form includes the best methods of the old masters, the results of the investi­gations of prominent European and American psychol­ogists, the fruits of the author's own active practice and experimentations and a number of important advances in methodology made in the past two decades. It is the main text of the course in Scientific Hypnosis of the Ethical Hypnosis Training Center.

This course differs in another respect. It is scientific and strictly true to fact. Hypnotism is presented stripped of its heritage of hokum and mysticism. Such things as animal magnetism, magnetic healing, and similar buga­boos are pointedly ignored. Most statements made rep­resent the consensus of opinion. In those cases where the author's opinion is given, this fact is clearly stated. The methods explained have been tried and proven and sensationalism and exaggeration have been studiously avoided. Hypnotism is presented truly as a science. The wheat, in short, is here separated from the chaff.

This course is for beginners as well as for advanced students. To the beginners especially, the author de­sires to address a few pertinent remarks. It is easy to learn to hypnotize, but only by dint of persistent prac­tice and application may one become an expert hypnot ist. The author suggests that these lessons be studied —not just read—in the order and sequence in which they appear. The Preliminary Tests which form a prac­tical screening procedure should be thoroughly mas­tered. The Psychology of Suggestion must be well understood. The student should, in particular, be quite familiar with the attendant conditions and possible dangers and have at his fingertips the means for meet­ing any emergencies which might arise. The course should be completed and begun a second time before any attempts at actual induction are to be made. Per­severance and assiduous practice will do the rest. The author earnestly hopes that once the student has mas­tered the hypnotic art, he be conscientious about its application and refrain from using it for the further­ance of questionable ends. Finally, hypnosis should be used for therapeutic purposes only by those who are qualified to do so by virtue of formal training in the healing arts, or under the supervision or direction of licensed physicians and dentists.