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William Joseph Bryan, Jr. (1926–1977) was an American physician and a pioneering hypnotist. He was one of the founders of the modern hypnotherapy and his work notably found use in psychological warfare during the Cold War.〔"William J. Bryan’s Hypnotic State," in: Alison Winter: ''Memory. Fragments of a Modern History''. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-90258-6, pp. 127–147.〕 He was a great grandson of United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan. ==Career and work== He held an MD, JD, and PhD. During the second world war, he worked as a military psychiatrist. After the war, he was involved in research for the CIA, including the Project ARTICHOKE and its successor, the Project MKUltra (popularly known as the CIA's mind control program), a research project into behavioral engineering of humans. As part of his work for the CIA, he developed techniques of what he called "hypno-conditioning." His published research from the era focused on the forensic and military range of psychological research. He would later focus on legal hypnosis.〔 William Joseph Bryan Jr is famous for inducing Albert DeSalvo's confession to multiple homicide under hypnosis. On May 4 of 1955, William J. Bryan founded the American Institute of Hypnosis, and he then edited the institute's ''Journal of the American Institute of Hypnosis''. He is credited with creating the 'Bryan Method' of hypnoanalysis. According to hypnosis practitioners such as Marc Aymar, Francoise Lotery and Felicia Mocanu, William J. Bryan Jr MD is recognized as one of the two central figures in the field of hypnosis during the 20th Century and they also claim that he was also the first full-time medical practitioner of hypnosis in the USA. The second central figure, they claim, was Milton H. Erickson (1901-1980). 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「William Joseph Bryan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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