The DAVE ELMAN Course in Medical Hypnosis 3 LP box, book signed letter + rare 78

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  • I will give greater weight to the condition of the front cover than back cover when assigning an overall grade
  • No cover with a cut out hole or saw mark will be graded Near Mint even if it is still in factory shrink and there is no other wear
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ABOUT DAVE ELMAN - RADIO HOST, SONGWRITER, COMEDIAN AND A MOST IMPORTANT FIGURE IN THE FIELD OF MEDICAL HYPNOSIS.

Dave Elman (May 6, 1900 - 5 December 1967) was a noted American radio host, comedian, and songwriter, and important figure in the field of hypnosis and hypnotherapy. He is most known today as the author of Findings in Hypnosis (1964) and the originator of a technique of hypnotic induction.[1][2] Over the course of his life, he was also well known as the creator and host of the popular radio show Hobby Lobby[3][4][5] as well as a songwriter and lyricist.[3][6]

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Career and later life
• 3 See also
• 4 Books
• 5 References

Early life

• Hypnotherapy
• Stage hypnosis
• Self-hypnosis
• Hypnosurgery

• Animal magnetism
• Franz Mesmer
• History of hypnosis
• James Braid

• Theodore Xenophon Barber
• Deirdre Barrett
• Hippolyte Bernheim
• Gil Boyne
• John Milne Bramwell
• William Joseph Bryan
• Jean-Martin Charcot
• Émile Coué
• Dave Elman
• Milton H. Erickson
• James Esdaile
• John Elliotson
• Sigmund Freud
• Erika Fromm
• Ernest Hilgard
• Clark L. Hull
• Pierre Janet
• Irving Kirsch
• Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
• Martin Theodore Orne
• Morton Prince
• Marquis of Puységur
• Andrew Salter
• Theodore R. Sarbin
• Nicholas Spanos
• André Muller Weitzenhoffer

• Hypnotic susceptibility
• Suggestion
• Age regression in therapy
• Hypnotic induction
• Neuro-linguistic programming
• Hypnotherapy in the United Kingdom

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Dave Elman was born David Kopelman to parents Jacob and Lena on May 6, 1900, in Park River, North Dakota. In 1902, the family moved to Fargo, where they started a business on Front Street making wigs, switches, and related performance equipment.[3]

In 1906, they moved their wig-making business to the Kopelman Building, which they had built at 514 1st Street. In the basement, they provided mikvah services so Jewish women in the community could purify themselves through special cleansing. Lena also began a hairdressing shop next door.[3]

Soon thereafter, Jacob was diagnosed with cancer. When a family friend relieved the intractable pain quite rapidly with hypnosis, Elman set about learning these techniques from him and began to realize the vast possibilities of hypnosis in the relief of pain outside of traditional medical procedures.[3]

Jacob died in November 1908, leaving his pregnant wife with six children. In his early teens, Elman worked odd jobs to help the family. He was a talented musician on the saxophone and violin, and used his quick wit and love of entertaining to perform within the community as a comic.[3]

Career and later life

Elman's performing eventually led to the vaudeville circuit, and he moved to New York in 1922. His stage name in vaudeville was Elman, shortened from Kopelman when his billing as "The World's Youngest and Fastest Hypnotist" did not fit on marquees or promotional material. After being unsatisfied working the nightclubs, he later got a job working for music publishers. It was at this time that Dave became acquainted with the famous blues composer and musician W. C. Handy, with whom he worked for some years.[3] The most well-known songs the duo wrote during this period were "Atlanta Blues", which was later recorded by dozens of other artists including Louis Armstrong, and "Oh Papa!", which was later recorded by Odetta.[6] It was while working with Handy that he met his future wife, Pauline Reffe.[3]

During the years 1923-1928, Elman was anxious to break into radio. In 1928, he got his first job with WHN, a large radio station in New York City. Soon after, he was hired by Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), New York, where he became known as an idea man.[3] He wrote, produced, directed, and performed in his own shows as well as others. He wrote a number of Kate Smith shows.

In 1937, he approached NBC with an idea for a new show: "Ordinary people would become advocates about their unusual hobbies", which were to be judged by an invited celebrity. NBC approved, and, on October 6, 1937, Elman debuted Hobby Lobby. The show became popular, and thousands of letters came in each week from people who wanted to talk about their hobbies.[citation needed] Many celebrities also sought to be on Elman’s show. When Elman went on vacation on August 2, 1939, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt accepted the invitation to be his replacement as host. Later, when he was hospitalized for a gallbladder operation, Roosevelt was once more the interim host. She also collaborated with Dave Elman on a movie advocating the use of hobbies as activities for soldiers, which she described in her "My Diary" newspaper column.[7] Hobby Lobby was on the air until 1948.

In 1949, Elman decided to pursue teaching hypnosis to doctors and dentists. From 1949 through 1962, he traveled extensively throughout America teaching his training course in hypnosis as a series of lessons called "Medical Relaxation", which he published as audio recordings. He also recorded a series of recordings entitled "Hypno-Analysis" which were actual sessions in hypnosis that he referenced for his course. In 1963, after a long illness, he decided to write his findings on the subject. It was a 336-page book which he dictated to his wife, Pauline, a stenographer, and then gave to his son Robert Elman, an author and editor, to edit. He then had the book printed copyrighted and self-published in 1964 under the title Findings in Hypnosis. In 1970, Nash Publishing published it and re-titled it Explorations in Hypnosis, and later it was published by Westwood Publishing under the name Hypnotherapy.

Perhaps the most well known aspect of Elman's legacy is his method of rapid induction, which was adapted for the use by medical professionals.