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'''Carl Hansen''' (Denmark, 19th century) is the Danish stage magnetizer that [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione|Donato]] mentions in his journal ''Le Magnétisme'' as the figure who, in 1880, revived public hypnotism in Europe after twenty years of oblivion, "according to Braid's procedures, slightly modified."

== The Historical Role: The Spark of 1880 ==

Donato's journal describes the situation with historical precision: hypnotism had been abandoned by official science after Braid. It was Hansen who, in 1880, returned to practicing hypnotism publicly before European audiences. His performances in Vienna and Germany triggered a chain reaction: the German physiologists Heidenhain, Berger, Schneider, Grützner, Opitz, Ruhlmann, and others, seeing Hansen at work, resumed the study of the subject and published several monographs.

Sigmund Freud, a medical student in Vienna at the time, attended Hansen's demonstrations at the Ringtheater in Vienna — it was the spark that led him to take an interest in hypnosis and psychology.

== The Method: Rotation and the Jerk ==

Di Pisa describes Hansen's method in the book ''L'Ipnosi dalla A alla Zeta'' as "highly effective but dangerous": the Dane spins the subjects in a circle, abruptly stops one, tilts their head back while staring very closely. Sleep is achieved instantly.

This method of "encephalic congestion" as a preparation for fascination is the same that Dr. Brémaud would later adopt as a variant of the Donato method for resistant subjects — with the difference that Brémaud made it more controlled and safe.

== The Relationship with Donato ==

Hansen and Donato are contemporaries and follow parallel paths in the same period. Donato credits Hansen with bringing hypnotism back to the European stage in 1880 — the same year Donato held his first scientific lecture before the doctors of the Canton of Vaud. The two represent two traditions: Hansen the Nordic tradition, more brutal and physical; Donato the Latin tradition, more subtle and psychic.

== Sources ==

* Donato (Alfred d'Hont), ''Le Magnétisme — Journal de Psycho-Physiologie'', Paris 1886 — [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vzKkFLNeaYyOvxk8ixWeOdw0Q27e1KvHktOUAOHAYZY/edit fasc. 1-50], [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zYdEV1OiZ1nQSPWdx6FMi7_OEdy72BoA7b71PvF4GiA/edit fasc. 50-104], [https://docs.google.com/document/d/11e-rXiQkkGtFKJjyxM8cfPj3bqk-qliATjlVNQ5oEr0/edit fasc. 104-154], [https://docs.google.com/document/d/15zbEsFNhACCElV8PV2hH_r6ta7CPSR-vqj5i_M_teoY/edit fasc. 154+]
* Prof. Erminio Di Pisa, ''L'Ipnosi dalla A alla Zeta'', chapter on theatrical methods

== See also ==

* [[Donato — Il Padre della Fascinazione]]
* [[Donato — La Rivista Le Magnétisme (1880-1886)]]
* [[Prof. Erminio Di Pisa — Ipnosi con lo Sguardo]]

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