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Jerome M. Schneck, MD
New York

JAMA. 1970;214(9):1707.

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To the Editor.—

I should like to comment on a point in the editorial on Sigmund Freud (213:1892-1893, 1970), because of its practical significance today. It states that Freud considered knowledge of the unconscious gained by hypnosis to be incomplete. But he was clearly handicapped by the limitations of his own experience at the time. Today it is commonplace for patients in analysis, and for many of their analysts, to seek help from psychiatrists practicing hypnotherapy in order to explore beyond the levels of nonhypnotic analytic endeavors. The editorial says also that Freud felt all patients could not be hypnotized. This was true so far as his therapeutic purposes and understandings were concerned. Today about 95% of patients seeking treatment are hypnotizable to a degree suitable for reasonable efforts to attain desired therapeutic goals.

I need not go into the reasons for Freud's relinquishing the use of hypnosis because . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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