Charles Lloyd Tuckey (14 February 1854 – 12 August 1925) was an English physician who is widely credited with reintroducing medical
hypnotism or
hypnotherapy to the United Kingdom in the late nineteenth-century.
[1] He was born in
Canterbury and educated at
King's School, Canterbury before attending medical school at
King's College London and
Aberdeen University. He went on to practice medicine in London. In 1888, after visiting
Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault in France and Drs
Frederik van Eeden and Albert van Renterghem in Amsterdam he took up medical
hypnotism despite its fringe status. He was a member of the New Hypnotists, a loosely knit group of British physicians who actively promoted medical hypnotism despite institutional opposition. Other members included
John Milne Bramwell,
Robert Felkin and George Kingsbury.
He wrote seven editions of the highly influential textbook, Psycho-Therapeutics: Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion. [2] He was a member of the Society for Psychical Research from 1889 to 1922, investigated hypnotic phenomena as chair of the organisation's Hypnotism committee and sat on the council from 1897 till his retirement.
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