Psychology as a behavioral science is the parent body of modern hypnosis. As history reveals, psychology did not erupt until the latter half of the nineteenth century.
Until then it was extremely difficult for man to accept a scientific view of himself. Powerful philosophical and theological concepts and forces obstructed scientific inquiry of man's mind, mental activity and behavior.
The student should become fully aware that psychology and the study of modern hypnosis are post-Darwinian. Only since Charles Darwin (1809-1882) wrote The Origin of the Species, establishing the theory of evolution and man's mammalian relationship to all other species, did science overcome conflicting religious views sufficiently to place man into the realm of biology.
While hypnosis was in use prior to Darwin, it has only been since his exhaustive studies and painstaking observations that psychology, modern hypnosis, hypnotherapy, hypno-analysis and positive auto-suggestion have been developed, researched and scientifically documented.
In the Late nineteenth century the fact that man was a mammal and a primate could no longer be ignored by philosophers and ecclesiastics alike.
As a result, psychology came into being as an independent and Legitimate study. Before that a "psychologist" was unknown; there were only "philosophers."
Darwin virtually exploded super-naturalistic connotations pertaining to man and revealed man, as with all other animals, having the need to eat, sleep, reproduce and subject to disease. His revelations have permitted the scientific investigation of behavior, mental activity and habits.
From them, too, has come knowledge of the evolution of body structure, environmental adaptation and selectivity by mankind. And with the evolution of customs, and adaptations from agriculture to industry, has also come the study of behavior.
Behavior is any action that can be observed, whether it be of an adult, child, kitten, puppy or chimpanzee; and from this developmental knowledge has come behavioral psychology.
Man has long adapted his behavior (in part) to his environment. The thesis "survival of the fittest" emphasized those alterations from generation to generation to adjust and strengthen the specie in its environment. This biologically stresses physical-mental adjustment to pass on to future generations, evidently to enhance the specie.
This has given man the capacity and desire to invent, store, retrieve, create language, protect himself from danger and "modify" his environment and place in it. It is only since the mid-nineteenth century that research has revealed that man has scarcely scratched the surface in investigating his own mind and those "qualities" for change, alteration and/or improvement.
And it has been the fledgling science of psychology that has led the way into these exciting explorations of the fathomless depths of man's mind, his reactive mechanisms and the "intuitive insight of imagination." Hypnosis has aided and continues to aid the limitless extensions of this scientific examination, study, development and search.
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