Article: A critical history of hypnotism: The unauthorized story

Rosenfeld, S.R. (2008). A critical history of hypnotism: The unauthorized story. NP: Xlibris. Reviewed by Rubin Battino, MS, Yellow Springs OH. This book, a scholarly and critical history of hypnosis, was many years in the making and writing. The author's bibliography is exceptional, going back in time before Mesmer, and providing citations and quotations from books and other sources published in many languages. It is perhaps "unauthorized" in the sense that the author does not have an advanced degree in one of the helping professions; yet, the excellence of his scholarship is evident. To demonstrate: there are 227 pages of text, 267 pages of notes (keyed to the text), and 32 pages of ...

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