Rare ALS signed “Monty Clift,” one page, 5.75 x 7, circa 1947. Clift writes to hypnotherapist Dr. Lewis Wolberg while on the set of his 1948 film The Search. In full: “Your letter was forwarded to me—obviously too late to do anything about. I hope you weren’t inconvenienced by this. We are out here finishing this epic & because we are so far behind time wise, we will probably go to Cal. as soon as we’re through the active work & get the thing to the mimeographers. So could we get a rain check on our meeting for when we get back from the coast. I’m grateful to you for not forgetting.” In very fine condition.
Dr. Lewis Wolberg was the Dean and Director of the Postgraduate Center For Mental Health and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at NYU's Medical College, and was the foremost pioneer of psychoanalytic hypnosis. His multi-volume book The Technique of Psychotherapy was considered a standard and his renowned 1945 work Hypo-Analysis may very well have made the revival of clinical hypnosis possible. Wolberg removed many of the stigmas formerly attached to this technique, finally bringing hypnosis into the realm of serious medical science. He became the authority on Hypo-Analysis, and the Wolberg Arm Levitation is named in his honor. His fame gained him many celebrity friends and patients, among them Alfred Hitchcock, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frederick March, Aldous Huxley, Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray and a young Montgomery Clift. Pre-certified PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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