Article ID: CBB894783226

The “Chicago School of Psychology” and Hypnotic Magazine: Suggestive Therapeutics, Public Psychologies, and New Thought Pluralism, 1895–1910 (2020)

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In the years from 1895 to 1910, suggestive therapeutics, in its various guises and applications, was the prevailing popular psychotherapeutic treatment featured in print culture and to which large numbers of Americans turned, seeking relief for both physical and psychological disorders. The “Chicago School of Psychology”—a health institution founded by Herbert A. Parkyn offering free treatment and clinical instruction in suggestive therapeutics—along with Hypnotic Magazine, the unofficial organ of the school edited by Sydney B. Flower, reigned supreme in Midwestern psychotherapeutics and “magazine medicine.” With his patients reclined on an Allison surgical table, Parkyn’s suggestive treatments sought to increase blood flow to afflicted painful areas, while urging upon patients a proper diet, fresh air, and exercise—what he termed “life essentials.” Both Parkyn and Flower purposely allied suggestive therapeutics to a host of related reform movements, such as physical culture, psychical research, practical psychology, and the acquisition of heightened occult mental powers often associated with the New Thought. Often mistaken as a form of Christian Science, the Chicago School of Psychology found it difficult to maintain its image as a distinct type of psychotherapy. Its identification with irregular psychological healing sects and its multitude of social and scientific interests placed it at the crossroads of medical and religious pluralism. The closure of the Chicago School of Psychology in 1906 coincided with the spread of the Emmanuel Movement to Chicago, where it became known as “Christian Psychology,” marking the final popular years of suggestive therapeutics in Chicago. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)

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Authors & Contributors
Fierro, Catriel
Himmerich, Hubertus
Berke, Joseph H.
Wu, Yu-chuan
White, Christopher G.
Whisker, Dan
Concepts
Psychology
Psychotherapy
Science and religion
Psychiatry
Psychoanalysis
Philosophy
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Modern
Places
United States
Japan
Scotland
Spain
Russia
France
Institutions
Columbia University
University of Chicago
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