Dr. Schreber called my death at 3 a.m. on September 23, 1939.
Now I am a ghost writer.
In life, I elaborated the theory that the mind is a complex energy-system, the structural investigation of which is the proper province of psychology. I articulated and refined the concepts of the unconscious, incest, infantile sexuality, femininity, the Oedipus Complex, and repression; and I proposed a tripartite account of the mind’s structure (Id, Ego, and Superego)—all as part of a radically new conceptual and therapeutic frame of reference for the understanding of human psychological development and the treatment of abnormal mental conditions.
Long ignored by the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic establishment, hypnosis and hypnoanalysis have been used in the attempt to obtain meaningful insights into criminal behavior. The hypnoanalytic technique has been refined continuously since Robert Lindner wrote Rebel Without a Cause in 1944. It is claimed that alcoholic patients are no longer slaves to a bottle. It is claimed that asthmatic patients no longer experience intensive attacks accompanied by panic, It is claimed that a host of other ailments have been alleviated or cured using hypnosis and hypnoanalysis.
But there are many who believe that hypnosis and hypnoanalysis are used by therapists to scam their patients. That hypnosis and hypnoanalysis don’t solve the problems presented to the therapists who use these techniques for their patients.
I used hypnosis to help neurotics recall disturbing events that they had apparently forgotten. As I began to develop my system of psychoanalysis, theoretical considerations--as well as the difficulty I encountered in hypnotizing some patients--led me to discard hypnosis in favor of free association.
Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? describes hypnosis and hypnoanalysis, so you can get an understanding of their history and how they work. Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? is an introduction to hypnosis and hypnoanalysis. It won’t make you a Freudian therapist; it won’t make you a satisfied patient.
But if you go beyond Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? and do some serious research, you should accumulate enough knowledge to make an informed decision about hypnosis and hypnoanalysis.
During hypnosis, one of my patients described a peculiar feeling, which never left him personally, that he found shared by many others, and which he may suppose millions more also experience. It is a feeling that he would like to call a sensation of eternity, feeling as of something limitless, unbounded, something “oceanic.“ It is, he said, a purely subjective experience, not an article of belief. These views expressed by my patient put me in a difficult position. I cannot discover this “oceanic” feeling in myself.
My esteemed colleague Dr. Victor Frankenstein believes that hypnotic suggestions can be used as a key to unlocking the prison gates of the unconscious. In the concluding paragraphs of Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? you will be shown how you can use suggestion to unlock the gateway to Heaven.
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Now I am a ghost writer.
In life, I elaborated the theory that the mind is a complex energy-system, the structural investigation of which is the proper province of psychology. I articulated and refined the concepts of the unconscious, incest, infantile sexuality, femininity, the Oedipus Complex, and repression; and I proposed a tripartite account of the mind’s structure (Id, Ego, and Superego)—all as part of a radically new conceptual and therapeutic frame of reference for the understanding of human psychological development and the treatment of abnormal mental conditions.
Long ignored by the psychiatric and psychotherapeutic establishment, hypnosis and hypnoanalysis have been used in the attempt to obtain meaningful insights into criminal behavior. The hypnoanalytic technique has been refined continuously since Robert Lindner wrote Rebel Without a Cause in 1944. It is claimed that alcoholic patients are no longer slaves to a bottle. It is claimed that asthmatic patients no longer experience intensive attacks accompanied by panic, It is claimed that a host of other ailments have been alleviated or cured using hypnosis and hypnoanalysis.
But there are many who believe that hypnosis and hypnoanalysis are used by therapists to scam their patients. That hypnosis and hypnoanalysis don’t solve the problems presented to the therapists who use these techniques for their patients.
I used hypnosis to help neurotics recall disturbing events that they had apparently forgotten. As I began to develop my system of psychoanalysis, theoretical considerations--as well as the difficulty I encountered in hypnotizing some patients--led me to discard hypnosis in favor of free association.
Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? describes hypnosis and hypnoanalysis, so you can get an understanding of their history and how they work. Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? is an introduction to hypnosis and hypnoanalysis. It won’t make you a Freudian therapist; it won’t make you a satisfied patient.
But if you go beyond Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? and do some serious research, you should accumulate enough knowledge to make an informed decision about hypnosis and hypnoanalysis.
During hypnosis, one of my patients described a peculiar feeling, which never left him personally, that he found shared by many others, and which he may suppose millions more also experience. It is a feeling that he would like to call a sensation of eternity, feeling as of something limitless, unbounded, something “oceanic.“ It is, he said, a purely subjective experience, not an article of belief. These views expressed by my patient put me in a difficult position. I cannot discover this “oceanic” feeling in myself.
My esteemed colleague Dr. Victor Frankenstein believes that hypnotic suggestions can be used as a key to unlocking the prison gates of the unconscious. In the concluding paragraphs of Are Hypnosis and Hypnoanalysis Scams or the Gateway to Heaven? you will be shown how you can use suggestion to unlock the gateway to Heaven.
Open Access Policy
You are free to share, copy, or redistribute the materials in this text in any medium or format. You are free to adapt, reuse, modify, transform, or build upon the materials in this text for any purpose whatsoever.
