Download or read book Hypnosis and Behavior Modification written by William S. Kroger and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 1976 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William S. Kroger (April 14, 1906 - December 4, 1994) was an American medical doctor who pioneered the use of hypnosis in medicine and was co-founder and founder of medical societies and academies dedicated to furthering psychosomatic medicine and medical hypnosis. Though he was trained as a gynecologist/obstetrician, his contributions to the medical field cut across disciplines and specialties in the medical field, including psychiatry, psychosomatic illness and treatment, endocrinology, neurobiology and bioengineering as well as his own specialty of gynecology and obstetrics. He is the author of the medical textbook, Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, considered to be a classic instructional aid in the use of hypnosis in medical settings, as well as co-authoring Psychosomatic Gynecology, Including Problems of Obstetrical Care and Hypnosis and Behavior Modification: Imagery Conditioning, among others.