Charles Lloyd Tuckey (14 February 1854 – 12 August 1925) was an English physician, who with

John Milne Bramwell John Milne Bramwell (11 May 1852 – 16 January 1925) was a Scottish physician, surgeon and specialist medical hypnotist. He was born in Perth and educated at the University of Edinburgh. Early and personal life The fourth child and young ...

, is widely credited with reintroducing medical

hypnotism Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.In 2015, the American Psychological ...

hypnotherapy Hypnotherapy, also known as hypnotic medicine, is the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy. Hypnotherapy is generally not considered to be based on scientific evidence, and is rarely recommended in clinical practice guidelines. However, several p ...

to the United Kingdom in the late nineteenth-century. He was born in

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and educated at

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before attending medical school at

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and

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. He went on to practice medicine in London. In 1888, after visiting

Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault (; 1823–1904) was a French physician and is considered the father of modern hypnotherapy. Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault was born in Favières, a small town in the Lorraine region of France, on September 16, 1823. He com ...

in France and Drs

Frederik van Eeden Frederik Willem van Eeden (3 April 1860, Haarlem – 16 June 1932, Bussum) was a late 19th-century and early 20th-century Dutch writer and psychiatrist. He was a leading member of the Tachtigers and the Significs Group, and had top billing amo ...

and Albert van Renterghem in Amsterdam he took up medical

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

Robert Felkin Robert William Felkin FRSE LRCSE LRCP (13 March 1853 – 28 December 1926) was a British medical missionary and explorer, a ceremonial magician, member of the S.R.I.A, member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, a prolific author on Ugand ...

and George Kingsbury.
He wrote seven editions of the highly influential textbook, ''Psycho-Therapeutics: Treatment by Hypnotism and Suggestion'' between 1889 and 1920. He treated the American diarist

Alice James Alice James (August 7, 1848 – March 6, 1892) was an American diarist, and the younger sister of novelist Henry James and philosopher and psychologist William James. Her relationship with William was unusually close, and she seems to have ...

using hypnotism for the pain and insomnia resulting from her breast cancer. He was a member of the

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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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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tuckey, Charles Lloyd 1854 births 1925 deaths Alumni of the University of Aberdeen Hypnotherapists 19th-century English medical doctors 20th-century English medical doctors Alumni of King's College London