Hypnosis Daily Blog

The role of prestige-and-faith relationship is so great in hypnosis that no practician can afford to disregard the "atmosphere" in which he works and conducts his experiments or treatments. Every detail matters, and the subjects are much more sensitive to them than is generally believed. The place where the hypnotist receives his subjects must be carefully selected. Freud related in one of his books that Bernheim, one of the most remarkable scientific hypnotists of all times, "frankly admitted to me that his great therapeutic successes by means of suggestion were only achieved in his hospital practice and not with his private patients." The reason for this fact is now obvious: the results of treatment depend on the subject's frame of mind.