Hypnography: A Study In The Therapeutic Use Of Hypnotic Painting ( Relief without drugs Ainslie Meares )

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by  Ainslie Meares

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HYPNOGRAPHY
A Study in the Therapeutic Use
of Hypnotic Painting
An ill-favoured thing, sir, but mine own
—As You Like it—
Act 5, Sc. 4
Thoughts are but playthings of the mind,
A toy strewn here and there
As leaves before the autumn wind.
Scattered, I know not where.
How Distant the Stars
Ainslie Meares
HYPNOGRAPHY
A Study in the Therapeutic Use
of Hypnotic Painting
By
AINSLIE MEARES,
MBBS., B.AGR.SC., DPM.
CHARLES C THOMAS • PUBLISHER
Springfield • Illinois U.S.A.
CHARLES C THOMAS • PUBLISHER
Bannerstone House
301-327 East Lawrence Avenue, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A.
Published simultaneously in the British Commonwealth of Nations by
BLACKWELL SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS, LTD., OXFORD, ENGLAND
Published simultanexxusly in Canada by
THE RYERSON PRESS, TORONTO
This book is protected by copyright. No part
of it may be reproduced in any manner with¬
out written permission from the publisher.
Copyright 1957, by CHARLES C THOMAS • PUBLISHER
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 57-7869
Printed in St. Louis, Missouri, in the United States of America
PREFACE
This volume is offered as a elinieal study in the therapeutic use
of hypnotic painting, and related phenoma. It is essentially a
clinical study. It is in no way the result of a research project in
the ordinarily accepted meaning of the term. The material is
merely the recorded observations of patients under treatment.
About nine-tenths of the work came from the observation of
patients treated in the course of private practice; the remainder
comes from work done in the psychiatric department of a general
hospital.
No patient has been hypnotized for purely experimental pur¬
poses. In the practice of what might be called eclectic psy¬
chiatry, patients whom it was thought would be best helped
by hypnosis have been hypnotized, and others have been treated
in waking psychotherapy, or by physical methods. Suggestibility
has never been taken as a criterion for using hypnosis. Of the
patients who were hypnotized, only those requiring insight
therapy have been treated with hypnography.
As a result of this, the present work is open to all the criticism
which usually pertains to a clinical study. There are no measure¬
ments; there are no statistics; there is no control series. On
the other hand, it is confidently believed that other workers
using the same method would produce similar results. In fact,
it is hoped that others will test the technique, perhaps expand
it; perhaps integrate it into a useful method of treating nervous
illness.
A feature of this work has been the persistence with which
dvnamic aspects of the situation have kept coming to the fore.
This has applied both to the induction of hypnosis, and also to
the ventilation of psychological conflicts. These have been
described, and they have been explained as purposive, mainly
on the basis of unconscious motivation. The work is primarily
descriptive so that the proof or otherwise of such explanations
may rest with other observers.
Ainslie Me ares
45 Spring Street
Melbourne, Australia
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