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Hypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention (the selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis, SASI), [2] reduced peripheral awareness, and an ...
Orne did not believe it was possible to use hypnosis for the purpose of creating a Manchurian Candidate stating, “When the layman inquires whether hypnosis can be used to induce antisocial behavior, he generally wonders whether a hypnotist can induce trance in a total stranger and then compel him to carry out behavior for his own personal and ...
A 2019 meta-analysis of hypnosis as a treatment for anxiety found that "the average participant receiving hypnosis reduced anxiety more than about 79% of control participants," also noting that "hypnosis was more effective in reducing anxiety when combined with other psychological interventions than when used as a stand-alone treatment." [51]
James Braid in the nineteenth century saw fixing the eyes on a bright object as the key to hypnotic induction. [3]A century later, Sigmund Freud saw fixing the eyes, or listening to a monotonous sound as indirect methods of induction, as opposed to “the direct methods of influence by way of staring or stroking” [4] —all leading however to the same result, the subject's unconscious ...
Hypnoanalysis is derived from the prefix hypno, which the French Étienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers first used to describe the hypnotic state. [3] The term hypnoanalysis was coined by James Arthur Hadfield, who claimed that he invented the term to describe the use of hypnosis to retrieve memories, particularly among patients who have amnesia. [4]
Self-hypnosis or auto-hypnosis (as distinct from hetero-hypnosis) is a form, a process, or the result of a self-induced hypnotic state. [ 1 ] Frequently, self-hypnosis is used as a vehicle to enhance the efficacy of self-suggestion ; and, in such cases, the subject "plays the dual role of suggester and suggestee".
Hypnosis—which accomplishes alterations in human awareness—is a great way to very directly and quickly get people to alter pain." [ 3 ] Spiegel became the most noted advocate of therapeutic hypnosis in the United States and developed a status as a celebrity.
As Harvard hypnotherapist Deirdre Barrett points out in 'Hypnosis in Popular Media', [1] the vast majority of these depictions are negative stereotypes of either control for criminal profit and murder or as a method of seduction. Others depict hypnosis as all-powerful or even a path to supernatural powers. [2]