John Milne Bramwell

Hypnosis

Applications
Autohypnosis Hypnotherapy Self-hypnosis Hypnosurgery In childbirth
Origins
History of Mesmerism Franz Mesmer History of hypnosis James Braid Mesmerism
Key figures
Marquis de Puységur James Esdaile John Elliotson Jean-Martin Charcot A. Liébeault Hippolyte Bernheim Pierre Janet Sigmund Freud Émile Coué Morton Prince Clark L. Hull Andrew Salter Theodore R. Sarbin Milton H. Erickson Ernest R. Hilgard Martin T. Orne André Weitzenhoffer Nicholas Spanos
Related topics
Hypnotherapists Hypnotic susceptibility Hypnotists Hypnotic suggestion Post-hypnotic suggestion Regression Suggestibility Suggestion
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John Milne Bramwell (1852 – 1925) was an Scottish physician and author, born at Perth, and educated at the University of Edinburgh.

He collected the works of James Braid the founder of hypnotism and helped to revive and maintain Braid's legacy in Great Britain.

He studied hypnotism thoroughly, including that employed in France at Paris and Nancy. He visited Liebeault in Nancy in 1889 and subsequently wrote an important early book on hypnosis in 1903Hypnotism: Its History, Practice, and Theory.

Bramwell himself was renowned a practitioner of hypnotherapy.

Publications

Dr. Bramwell wrote:

• Successful Treatment of Dipsomania, Insomnia, etc., and Various Diseases by Hypnotic Suggestion (1890-92)
• Hypnotic Anæsthesia (1896)
• On the Appreciation of Time by Somnambules (1896)
• Suggestion: Its Place in Medicine and Scientific Research (1897)
• Hypnotism: Its History, Practice, and Theory (1903)
• Hypnotism and Treatment by Suggestion (1910)