1946-2001
From a lecture by Dr. Gilbert Steingart:
...when I began to use hypnosis in my practice. My patients were very accepting of its use. However I hesitated to inform my fellow dentists … lest they dub me a nut or a quack. But I’m getting ahead of my story.
It all started when I
began to practice dentistry. I… heard
remarks from patients like “Doctor, I hate dentists, nothing personal of course”
… What could I … do when a patient said “I’d rather go to the hospital than
have my teeth worked on” or “… I’d rather have a baby than have you work on my
teeth?” The … use of local anesthetics, nitrous oxide sedation, tranquilizers,
intravenous sedation and even general anesthesia failed to affect the attitudes
of my patients toward dentals treatment … Something was missing. It took me a
while to realize…I was treating dental problems instead of patients with dental
problems.
… it was 1946 I had just returned to civilian
life after my tour of duty in the South Pacific compliments of Uncle Sam and
the U.S. Navy. I was attending the
annual meeting of the Alumni Association of the School of Dentistry of the
University of Southern California. The
speaker was Charles Cooke, Ph.D. His subject was Hypnosis. I listened and thought
“so what.” Several weeks later I attended a meeting of the Santa Monica Dental
Society. The guest speaker was the same Dr. Charles Cooke … He announced that
he was conducting courses in hypnosis, and he had me … I
learned how to hypnotize… What to do next was my problem … I … realized that
inducing hypnosis was only part of it.
Here is a sampling of mementos from his long professional experience:
Clippings 1956
Clippings 1959-1960
USC Alumni Journal 1960
The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis April 1962
Journal of the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology 1963
One of the hundreds of programs, courses and lectures.
One of scores of scientific meetings
From the National Enquirer date unknown
In 1990 he turned 90 and continued to lecture
His last lecture
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