American Institute of Hypnosis

The American Institute of Hypnosis was a scholarly society devoted to the scientific study of hypnosis, founded on 4 May 1955 by the physician and pioneering hypnotist William Joseph Bryan. The society published an academic journal, the Journal of the American Institute of Hypnosis, edited by Bryan. Bryan's work notably found use in psychological warfare during the Cold War.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "William J. Bryan’s Hypnotic State," in: Alison Winter: Memory. Fragments of a Modern History. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-90258-6, pp. 127–147.


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