Rhodes, Raphael H Ed 1910 (1 results)

8vo. xiv, 274 pp. Index; paper flaw on p. 131 showing hole in margin. Navy-blue gilt-stamped cloth. INSCRIBED by the editor to Dr. Milton Abramson (a contributor), 1952. Good. First edition. Rhodes wrote Hypnosis: theory, practice and application. In this volume is found Abramson & Heron, 'Hypnosis in obstetrics'. / With contributions from 15 authors: Rhodes (psychologist), Lewis R. Wolberg (psychiatrist (1905-1988)), Sydney James van Pelt (psychiatrist (1908-1976)), Charles Freed (endocrinologist), Gordon Ambrose (child psychiatrist), Milton Abramson & William T. Heron (psychiatrist), George Newbold (Ob-Gyn), William Saul Kroger (obstetrician & gynecologist, a pioneer in the use of hypnosis in medicine (1906-1995)), Milton H. Erickson, 'Hypnotic treatment of a case of acute hysterical depression', Erickson, 'Hypnotic psychotherapy', Lawrence S. Kubie (psychiatrist), Jacob H. Conn (psychiatrist, taught the first course in medical hypnosis at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as an associate professor (1904-1990)), Robert M. Lindner (psychoanalyst, best known as the author of the 1944 book Rebel Without A Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath, from which the title of Nicholas Ray's 1955 film was adapted (1914-1956)), John L. Levbarg (psychiatrist), and Andrew Salter (psychologist, the founder of conditioned reflex therapy (1914-1996)). PROVENANCE: Ruth & Milton Abramson, M.D., Clinical Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Milton Abramson, with Dr. William T. Heron [Professor of Psychology, U. Minn.], developed theories involving 'morning sickness'. They were joint authors in a paper entitled, 'An objective evaluation of hypnosis in obstetrics'. Also written is a paper, 'Response to or perception of auditory stimuli under deep surgical anesthesia', written by Milton Abramson, M.D., Ph.D., Irving Greenfield, M.D., and William T. Heron, Ph.D., American J. of Ob. & Gyn., volume 96, issue 4, p.584-585, October 15, 1966.