| The word hypnosis is derived from the Greek 'ypnos' | | | | no food. This was due to conditioning and |
| which translated means sleep. Hypnosis though is a | | | | reconditioning. Because of this Pavlov became |
| trance like state and not sleep because the subject | | | | interested in hypnosis which he believed ran parallel to |
| can talk and stays alert. Ancient civilizations used a | | | | his experiments. Hypnosis gained a measure of |
| type of hypnosis for many group rituals such as | | | | respectability during the war where it was used to put |
| chanting to a steady drum beat which was used in | | | | soldiers back into action. |
| many religious ceremonies. Back in the 1600s people | | | | Although not an accepted practice many psychiatrists |
| experimented with animals. Chickens were calmed | | | | used the technique to help many soldiers whose |
| hypnotically by various methods such as balancing | | | | illnesses were caused by wartime trauma to function |
| wood shavings on their beaks. Farmers learned to | | | | again. The American Medical Association, in 1958, |
| hypnotize hens to make them sit on eggs which were | | | | approved a report on the medical uses of hypnosis. |
| not their own. | | | | Research on hypnosis was encouraged as some |
| Volgyesi, a Hungarian hypnotist, hypnotized all the | | | | aspects of hypnosis are unknown and controversial. |
| animals in the Budapest Zoo back in the late 1800s. | | | | Shortly after this the British Medical Association |
| Nobel Peace Prize winner Ivan Petrovitch Pavlov | | | | expressed similar views and not long after that the |
| noticed , in 1904,that dogs given a signal before food | | | | Italian Medical Association For The Study of Hypnosis |
| would, after a time, salivate when given the signal with | | | | was founded. |