Dave Elman
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'''Dave Elman''' (1900-1967) was an American [[hypnotist]], known for his effective [[hypnosis]] techniques.
== Early Life ==
Dave Elman was born in Fargo, North Dakota to a mother and stage hypnotist father. As a young man was described as being honorable, honest, and (ironically for a hypnotist)having a voice like 'fingernails on a chalkboard'. The family ran a country store in their home town, stocking items such as ice cream, dry goods, books, etc. Most of the books in the store were about hypnosis. Elman read most of these books, but was impressed chiefly by ''Suggestive Therapeutics'', by Hippolyte Bernheim. In ''Suggestive therapeutics'', Berheim discovered that if a person went into a light hypnotic state upon their first visit would, with weekly visits, eventually go into deeper and deeper hypnotic states.
== Hypnotic Reinduction Theory ==
Once Elman researched Berheim's hypnotic techniques, he theorized, basically, that: If weeks can progressively deepen a subject, then why make it take weeks, when it could be done once every hour? If that is true, then why not hypnotize and emerge them many times in the same induction. This led to the developement of the Rapid Hypnotic Reinduction technique.
== Overview ==
Dave Elman was an entertainer and radio broadcaster before becoming fully involved with Hypnosis. As a small boy he was deeply impressed when a visiting stage hypnotist helped his terminally ill father achieve sufficient pain relief to permit Dave to visit and play with him. In later years he chiefly taught hypnosis to medical doctors and dentists for pain relief and removal of conditions with an emotional component such as allergies, stuttering and obesity. There is very little material available save for a book and some audio recordings of his trainings. Even by today's standards his book ''Hypnotherapy'' (1964) (first published as ''Findings in Hypnosis'') is a remarkable piece of work. Elman was the among most remarkable hypnotist, due to his great observations and experiments with hypnosis.
== Suggested Reading ==
* ''Hypnotherapy'', by Dave Elman. ISBN 0-930298-04-7
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