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24. Many persons feel much fatigue when they magnetize; others do not feel any. This is not owing to the movements that are made, but to the loss of the vital principle or magnetic fluid. He who is not endowed with great magnetic force would exhaust himself in the course of time, if he were to magnetize every day for several hours. Generally speaking, evory one in good health, and not enfeebled by age, might undertake the treatment of a single patient, and give him a sitting of one hour each day. But every one has not the strength necessary for magnet- izing several persons, nor several hours in succession. As to the rest, the more one exercises himself in it, the less he is fatigued; because he employs only just as much force as is necessary.
PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY AND TOPOGRAPHIC REGRESSION Psychoanalytic theory represents a broad and coherent model of human functioning regarding "what hypnosis is, and what hypnosis is not" (Nash, 1997, p. 291). Although Freud was impressed by the apparent submissiveness of certain hypnotized participants and likened hypnosis to being in love, there is no evidence to support the idea that hypnosis fosters an erotic or sexual therapist-patient relationship. This state of affairs (no pun intended) has led modern psychoanalytic theorists (Baker, 1981, 1987; Fromm, 1979;