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The Transition to Secular Psychotherapy

Hypnosis and the Alternate-Consciousness Paradigm

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Three traditions exist in the Western world for understanding the origins of disturbances of consciousness and accompanying bizarre behavior—the spiritist, the medical, and the psychological—within which three influential paradigms for understanding mental illness have evolved.

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