The Other Mind - A Critical History of Hypnosis, the Unconscious, and the Psychotherapeutic Imagination #1003476

By rigorously separating phenomena from the theories that claim to explain them, the book shows that psychotherapy does not merely discover what exists “within” us: it constructs models, metaphors, and operational fictions through which experience becomes observable and transformable.
Hypnosis thus emerges not as a marginal or mysterious technique, but as one of the great modern laboratories of consciousness.
The other mind is not hidden behind the conscious mind. It is the mind itself, caught in the act of constructing its own experience and forgetting that it has done so.

CONTENTS

• Introduction: What Do We Mean by Hypnosis?
• Ancient Roots: Trance, Dream, and the Transformation of Experience Before Hypnosis
• Mesmer: Animal Magnetism Between the Physics of Fluids and the Power of Imagination
• James Braid: From Magnetic Fluid to the Physiology of Attention
• Jean-Martin Charcot: Hypnosis as an Experimental Neurosis
• Hippolyte Bernheim: Suggestion as the Principle of Hypnosis
• Pierre Janet: Dissociation, Psychological Automatism, and Subconscious Fixed Ideas
• Sigmund Freud: From Hypnosis to Free Association
• Carl Gustav Jung: From Hypnosis to the Autonomy of the Image
• Wilhelm Reich: From Character to Orgone
• Milton H. Erickson: Hypnosis as the Utilization of Experience
• Gregory Bateson: Cybernetics, Communication, and Levels of Learning
• Richard Bandler and John Grinder: Neuro-Linguistic Programming Between Modeling and Scientific Myth
• Stephen Gilligan: From Therapeutic Trance to Generative Trance
• The Neuroscience of Hypnosis
• Conclusion — From Hypnosis as a Technique to Hypnosis as a Theory of the Construction of Experience
• Bibliography