In the beginning, he used hypnosis. But he quickly abandoned it in favor of free association and dream analysis.
Freud used hypnosis as one means of uncovering the often traumatic, not consciously recalled memories of his neurotic patients just as he used their dreams to evaluate their mental conflicts.
Freud trained in France, Paris to be precise, under neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, who often did use hypnosis to treat neurological disorders.
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot
Jean-Martin Charcot
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Depends upon your definition of Hypnosis, Mesmer came up with Animal Magnetism (origin of the word mesmerize) but cant really be called hypnosis. Erikson is deemed the father of modern hypnosis methods and thinking. There are many individuals in between the two who have left there mark and helped make hypnosis what it is today
James Braid, Hippolyte Bernheim, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet, Ernest Rossi
Some experts in hypnosis can use the techniques of hypnosis to hypnotize someone instantly through conversation. This is called covert hypnosis. For more information on covert hypnosis and other forms of hypnosis visit hypnotizepro.com
Hypnosis is a way to alter the mental state of a person. Some magicians use hypnosis, real or pretended, as part of their acts.
Hypnosis proved problematic for Freud in his practice of psychotherapy, which is why he abandoned it in favour of other techniques he'd developed for unlocking and analysing the "unconscious" thoughts and impulses of his patients. Freud had trained as a medical doctor, and then specialised and researched in neurology. He studied hypnosis, and its clinical potential, under Charcot et al in Paris, and was interested in using it to access the "unconscious mind" of troubled patients. When he did so, however, he encountered many difficulties with his typical Viennese patients, mainly upper-middle class women who came from very socially and sexually repressive background. When in the state of heightened suggestibility typical of hypnosis, many of them displayed extreme "transference" typically involving erotic fantasies centred on Freud himself! This was very uncomfortable for him, professionally dangerous, and not therapeutically useful to his patients, threatening to do far more harm than good. Consequently, Freud abandoned hypnosis, and developed what became known as "free association", and similar techniques, which generally had the effect of inducing in patients a dissociated trance state, but without the same problems which all too often had occurred during hypnosis inductions - typically a very focused and "intimate" form of interpersonal communication.
Franz Mesmer started the idea that there is a state similar to sleep that people can experience in more controlled settings. Mesmerism was named after him, and psychologists like James Braid and Freud expanded on his ideas with some more closer to legitimate scientific evidence to develop his ideas into hypnosis.