Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2023-11-29
Books mentioned on Hypnosis: Fact and Fiction
Most people are familiar with some version of "hypnosis" -- at least as it's portrayed in fiction. But what is hypnosis, exactly?
Ben Bowlin recommended Making Monsters by Richard Ofshe and others, and discussed Sybil by Benjamin Disraeli.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Sybil
Discussed“and this also saw the rise or the popularization of the idea that trauma would be so bad that your mind had fractured into multiple personalities which is where we see things like um was the pop culture phenomenon cibil that's the right one right”
Where to get it
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Making Monsters
Making Monsters by Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters is a non-fiction book published in 1994 that investigates the controversial recovered memory movement and the psychological phenomenon surrounding it.
Recommended“so I want to shout out a fantastic New York Times piece by a guy named Ethan Waters who is the co-author of a book called making monsters which came out in 1994 it is about this phenomen on the recovered memory movement”
Where to get it
