title: Therapeutic hypnosis, psychotherapy, and the digital humanities: the narratives and culturomics of hypnosis, 1800-2008.
abstract: Culturomics is a new scientific discipline of the digital humanities-the use of computer algorithms to search for meaning in large databases of text and media. This new digital discipline is used to explore 200 years of the history of hypnosis and psychotherapy in over five million digitized books from more than 40 university libraries around the world. It graphically compares the frequencies of English words about hypnosis, hypnotherapy, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, and their founders from 1800 to 2008. This new perspective explore issues such as: Who were the major innovators in the history of therapeutic hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and psychotherapy? How well does this new digital approach to the humanities correspond to traditional histories of hypnosis and psychotherapy?
authors.affiliation: Milton H. Erickson Institute, Los Osos, California, USA. ernest@ernestrossi.com
authors.forename: Ernest
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rossi
authors.forename: Jane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mortimer
authors.forename: Kathryn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Rossi
mesh_terms: D015706:Bibliometrics / Q000266:history; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006809:Humanities / Q000266:history*; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000266:history*; D015201:Meta-Analysis as Topic; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011572:Psychoanalysis / Q000266:history*; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000266:history*