William Joseph Bryan

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William Joseph Bryan (* 1924 or 1926 ; † probably 1977 ) was an American pioneer of modern hypnotherapy . His approaches were used in the Cold War .

Bryan was a great-grandson of William Jennings Bryan . During the Second World War he was a military psychiatrist. In 1955, Bryan founded the American Institute of Hypnosis and published its Journal of the American Institute of Hypnosis . Among other things, he published writings on forensic hypnosis .

In 1962 Bryan starred in John Frankenheimer's film Ambassador of Fear . He was best known for using hypnosis to elicit a confession from the serial killer Albert Henry DeSalvo . He is also the protagonist of an important conspiracy theory : William Turner and Jonn Christian suspected in their book The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy that Bryan Sirhan hypnotically induced Sirhan to kill Robert F. Kennedy .

Fonts (selection)

  • Legal aspects of hypnosis. Thomas, Springfield, Illinois 1962 ( OCLC 697290676 ).
  • Religious Aspects of Hypnosis ... 1962.
  • The chosen ones; or, The psychology of jury selection. Vantage Press, New York 1971 ( OCLC 277517 ).

literature

  • William J. Bryan's Hypnotic State and the following subsections. In: Alison Winter : Memory: Fragments of a Modern History. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-90258-6 , pp. 127-147.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c William J. Bryan's Hypnotic State and the following subsections. In: Alison Winter : Memory. Fragments of a Modern History. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2012, ISBN 978-0-226-90258-6 , pp. 127-147.
  2. ↑ I, the monster. In: Der Spiegel . No. 47, 1966, p. 153.
  3. ^ William Turner: The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy . Random House, New York 1978, pp. 227-228.
personal data
SURNAME Bryan, William Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bryon, William Joseph; Bryan III, William Jenning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Musician and hypnotherapist
DATE OF BIRTH 1924 or 1926
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: 1977