# Photographic Studies in Hypnosis, Abnormal Psychology

Depiction of a subject under hypnosis enduring various experiments in a clinical setting. From the Photographic Studies in Hypnosis series. This silent film shows a woman being hypnotized and includes both pre and post hypnosis scenes. The hypnotist demonstrates how a patient’s mind can be manipulated as he pinpricks and burns his patient with controlled and suggestive reactions. This unrehearsed session of hypnosis features two students whom are given false memories. The pair are then tested about their memories and are given some basic psychological tests to see the effects of the hypnosis. (University of Oregon Library catalog) Lester F. Beck was an Associate Professor of Psychology as well as a Secretary Treasurer at the University of Oregon. He was responsible for the research and planning that resulted in production of the widely accepted E.C. Brown Trust film called “Human Growth”. Brown University awarded its first ever Ph.D. degree in psychology in 1933 to Lester F. Beck, whose topic was “Manual Skills and the Measurement of Handedness.” Here is a link to his IMDB page http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1393104/. (from 16mmlostandfound website) Detailed information on film: https://16mmlostandfound.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/photographic-studies-in-hypnosis-abnormal-psychology-1938/ (accessed 2023-07-07). Shotlist (from Prelinger Archives legacy database): MS woman in a chair closing her eyes, strange rapid blinking, beginning to fall asleep in the early stages of being…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1938
- By: Lester F. Beck
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200384_Hypnosis)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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