Erickson basically accuses Cooke of being a quack and says that The Hypnotism Handbook was printed by a publishing firm which "publishes solely at the author's expense", so perhaps an inability to find a major publisher would explain the delay between the book being written in 1948 and published in 1956. van Vogt, Borden Publishing Company, Alhambra, California) for one of them. By that year I knew a number of psychologists, and in fact was writing a book on hypnotism ( The Hypnotism Handbook C. The possibility of personal involvement did not occur to me until 1948. van Vogt, the wiki article on van Vogt says this was part of his "fix-up" work for other authors, and that "one non-fiction work, The Hypnotism Handbook, appeared in 1956, though it had apparently been written much earlier." The statement about it having been written earlier might be based on a piece van Vogt wrote for a science fiction studies journal, Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction-according to the linked article, "The first eight issues of Foundation were republished in book form as Foundation: The Review of Science Fiction, Numbers 1-8, March 1972 – March 1975", and I found a snippet from that book which says: Searching for more information on the "Cooke Hypnotizing Spiral" I found that Cooke had written a book called The Hypnotism Handbook, first published in 1956, which included the spiral:Ĭooke wrote the book with science fiction author A. His unusual enthusiasm has led him to develop new techniques, write a book, and develop the popular Cooke Hypnotizing Spiral.Ĭan Hypnosis help you, your patients or is it just fascinating? Have your questions ready for the expert. Likewise Journal - Southern California State Dental Association volume 15, dated by google books as being from 1948, has this snippet (possibly from an advertisement): Google books list this collection of volumes as being from 1948 but sometimes their dates on collections of journal/magazine issues just reflect the starting date, so this particular excerpt could be from a later year.
Cooke, the author of the popular Cooke Hypnotizing Spiral. presented for their April program, "Techniques of Hypnosis for Therapy" by Mr. Consequently one should not let the patient fix his gaze on a bright spot of an object or on a rotating spiral, etc.Īlso on google books I found the Journal of Dentistry for Children, Volumes 15-17 with this excerpt on page 28: The drowsiness of the hypnoidal state should never be induced by fatiguing the optic nerve. 67 available in a preview snippet which says: Searching google books, the book Hypnoidal Psychotherapy by Margaret Steger, which was published in 1951, has a section from p.
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