George Estabrooks

Canadian-American hypnotist

Hypnosis
Applications Animal magnetism Hypnotherapy Stage hypnosis Self-hypnosis Hypnosurgery
Origins/History History of hypnosis Royal Commission on Animal Magnetism
Key figures Theodore Xenophon Barber Deirdre Barrett Hippolyte Bernheim Gil Boyne James Braid John Milne Bramwell William Joseph Bryan Jean-Martin Charcot Émile Coué Dave Elman Milton H. Erickson James Esdaile John Elliotson Sigmund Freud Erika Fromm Ernest Hilgard Josephine R. Hilgard Clark L. Hull Pierre Janet Irving Kirsch Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault Franz Mesmer Martin Theodore Orne Charles Poyen Morton Prince Marquis of Puységur Andrew Salter Theodore R. Sarbin Nicholas Spanos André Muller Weitzenhoffer
Related topics Hypnotic susceptibility Suggestion Age regression in therapy Hypnotic induction Neuro-linguistic programming Hypnotherapy in the United Kingdom
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George Hoben Estabrooks (December 16, 1895 – December 30, 1973) was a Canadian-American psychologist and an authority on hypnosis during World War II. He was a Harvard University graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, and chairman of the Department of Psychology at Colgate University. He claimed to have used hypnosis to help spies have split personalities to not actually know they were spies in case of capture. He stated it was easy to create and easy to cure using hypnosis.^{[citation needed]}

He joined the First Canadian Division in his teens and at the age of 19 became the youngest commissioned Officer. Later in life, he became a 32nd degree Knight Templar Mason and wrote various articles and books including these four publications: The Future of the Human Mind, Hypnotism, Spiritism, and Man - The Mechanical Misfit.^[1]

Estabrooks did experiments on children. He exchanged correspondence with then FBI Director Edgar Hoover about using hypnosis to interrogate juvenile delinquents.^[2] It is possible^{[according to whom?]} he used Manchurian Candidates in children.^[3]^{[dead link]}

Bibliography

Articles

Estabrooks, G. H. (1960). "The Future of Hypnosis". American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. 3 (1): 49–54. doi:10.1080/00029157.1960.10404347.

"Hypnosis Comes of Age". Science Digest: 44–50. April 1971.

Books

Hypnotism. New York: E.P.Dutton & Co. 1957.

Spiritism. New York: E.P.Dutton & Co. 1947.

Conference proceedings

Estabrooks, George, ed. (1962). Hypnosis: Current Problems — Theory and Research Methodology in Specific Fields. Harper's Psychological Series. New York, NY: Harper & Row. OCLC 14619894. 285 pages. Papers of a symposium titled “Theory and Research Methodology in Specific Fields”, held at Colgate University on April 1–2, 1960.^[4]

Articles by other authors

"George Hoben Estabrooks, Ph.D., 1895–1973". American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis. 16 (3): iii. 1974. doi:10.1080/00029157.1974.10403669. Obituary.

References

^ Ross, Colin A., MD. The C.I.A. Doctors. (2006). Manitou Communications Inc., Texas, USA. pg. 44.
^ Correspondence with J. E. Hoover. Declassified FBI documents 1364377-1
^ "CIA The Secrets of Mind Control | CSGlobe". Retrieved 2022-04-12.
^ "1962, English, Conference Proceedings edition: Hypnosis: Current Problems". Trove. National Library of Australia.