History & People
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ROBERT HUFFSTUTTER, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia CommonsThe Patient Who Told Freud to Stop Talking
In 1889, one of the richest women in Europe told a young hypnotist to stop asking questions and listen. His name was Sigmund Freud. The forgotten story of how hypnosis, and his patients,…
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When Hypnosis Was Restricted in Victoria
In 1965, an inquiry into Scientology ended up shutting down Melbourne’s hypnotherapists. For two decades, whether you could legally see one depended on which side of the Murray River you lived on.
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The Year Japan Made Hypnosis a Crime
In 1908, the Japanese government did something no Western country had quite dared to do. It made practising hypnosis “without reason” a police offence. Under Article 2.19 of the new Police Criminal Punishment…
