What characteristics of Esdaile make it very useful? There are two major advantages of Esdaile from a medical perspective – Anesthesia and Catatonia. Both are interesting to the hypnosis profession, but often do not have important uses for our profession because the...
Where Did the Name ‘Esdaile State’ Originate? In the early 20th Century (and probably before), stage hypnotists were terrified of encountering a spontaneous “hypnotic coma.” A subject in a Hypnotic Coma does not respond to emergence suggestions given by the hypnotist....
Over One Hundred Years of the Elman Hypnosis Method The Dave Elman Induction (“the DEI”) began its evolution sometime in 1912 – 100 years ago – when David Kopelman, then a junior high school student in Fargo, North Dakota, began hypnotizing his classmates....
