Jack Stanley Gibson

Jack Stanley Gibson

Dr Jack Stanley Gibson (1909-2005) was an Irish surgeon remembered for having advocated the use of hypnosis as an alternative to anaesthetics, not only through his surgical practice, but also through popular phonograph records, books, and videotapes.

Life and career

Gibson graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, in 1933.cite news
url=http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/330/7505/1452
title=Obituary: Jack Stanley Gibson
publisher=BMJ
date=June 18 2005
accessdate=2007-07-27
] He became the youngest ever, at the age of 25, to gain the fellowship in 1934.Fact|date=April 2007 After locums in Aden, Malawi, and South Africa, he became Dean of Durban Medical School in 1939. During World War II, he served with the Emergency Medical Service in Britain, treating wounded soldiers.

After a brief return to private practice in South Africa, he spent the 1950s in Guernsey. In 1959 briefly went to Hailie Selassie Hospital in Ethiopia as a surgeon, then back to Dublin to take an appointment at Dr Steeven's Hospital.

In 1965, Gibson began producing his self hypnosis material in popular media. "How to Stop Smoking" was Ireland's best-selling LP of 1971.

Dr Gibson died peacefully in the Naas General Hospital on Saturday 2 April 2005 aged 95.

Works

Records

* "How to Stop Smoking" (LP, 1971)

Videotapes

* "The Power of the Subconscious" (in which he performs eye surgery under hypnosis)

Books

* "The Life and Times of an Irish Hypnotherapist" (1989)
* "Relax and Live" (1992)
* "Memoirs of an Irish Surgeon—An Enchanted Life" (1999).

References

External links

* [http://www.drjackgibson.com/ Dr Jack Gibson] official website


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