In 1843, a Scottish surgeon named James Braid published a book with the fun-to-say title of "Neurypnology," which is often cited as the earliest known instance of modern-day hypnosis used for medical purposes. The practice and terminology of hypnosis began to spread through the psychology community through the rest of the 19th century and into the 20th, and it was used openly during wartime as a valuable psychological tool for combatting PTSD. Films like "Bride of the Monster" (1955), "The Hypnotist" (1957), "The Hypnotic Eye" (1960), and one of the greatest Cold War movies ever made, "The Manchurian Candidate" (1962), all employed hypnotism, as did just about every "Dracula" movie.
Author: staff@slashfilm.com (Witney Seibold)
Published at: 2025-04-05 20:30:00
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