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Johann Joseph Gassner (22 August 1727 in Braz, near Bludenz, Vorarlberg – 1779 Pondorf, now part of Winklarn, Bavaria) was a noted exorcist. While a Catholic priest at Klösterle he gained a wide celebrity by professing to "cast out devils" and to work cures on the sick by means simply of prayer; he was attacked as an impostor, but the bishop of Regensburg, who believed in his honesty, bestowed upon him the cure of Pondorf. Gassner's methods have been linked to a special form of hypnotic training. He has been described as a predecessor of modern hypnosis.〔Burkhard., Peter. (2005). ''Gassner's Exorcism—Not Mesmer's Magnetism—Is the Real Predecessor of Modern Hypnosis''. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis 53: 1-12.〕 Henri Ellenberger, in his "Discovery of the Unconscious", placed the dispute between Gassner and Franz Anton Mesmer at the center of modern psychotherapy.〔Ellenberger Henri, "Discovery of the Unconscious". New York: Basic Books, 1970. 〕 ==References== *Midelfort, H. C. Erik. ''Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the demons of eighteenth-century Germany'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005). ISBN 0-300-10669-6. *(Gassner at the Catholic Encyclopedia ) *(Gassner biography ) (German) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Johann Joseph Gassner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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