Nor, although she was sharply questioned, could she remember anything she had said while hypnotized; still, this proved nothing, for it is seldom that what goes on during hypnosis is recalled in the waking state.
As will be shown in detail later, one of the distinctive characteristics of hypnosis is the preternaturally increased suggestibility of the person hypnotized.
This goes to show that the Nancy school are right in saying that while in Hypnosis suggestibility is exaggerated to an enormous degree, still it has limits in the more well-knit habits, moral sentiments, social opinions, etc.
Further, in any subsequent period of Hypnosis the events of the former similar periods are remembered.
Liébeault, the founder of the Nancy school, has the credit of having first made use of hypnosis as a remedial agent.
And it further shows that Hypnosis is probably, as they claim, a temporary disturbance, rather than a pathological condition of mind or body.
Now there exists a way of inducing hypnosis in some hysterical persons which seems intermediate between massive and localised stimulations.
Stated thus nakedly, this seems the strongest possible instance of the induction of hypnosis by localised stimulus.
The apparent resemblance, indeed, between narcosis and hypnosis diminishes on a closer analysis.
Regions by pressure on which hypnosis is induced in some hysterical persons.
A good subject can be awakened and thrown into hypnosis again almost at pleasure, and independently of any state either of nutrition or of fatigue.
Next in order among forms of localised stimulus used for inducing hypnosis may be placed monotonous stimulation,--to whatever part of the body it be applied.
I hold that this is the explanation of the strange contrasts which hypnosis makes familiar to us--the combination of profound power over the organism with childish readiness to obey the merest whims of the hypnotiser.
This at once gives him renewed confidence, and future hypnosis becomes a comparatively simple matter.
True, therapeutic hypnosis leaves at least certain senses of the subject open to perceive such things as are presented by the hypnotist's suggestion though these senses may be, and usually are, quite closed to all other perceptions.
When the war spirit sweeps over a country the social personality passes into a condition not unlike that of hypnosis and is ruled by a different set of moral principles.
How long do you need to know if you can use hypnosis or if you need drugs, and wouldn't it be simpler to drug the whole lot?
I've forgotten more about hypnosis than he'll ever know.
The physician might rather resort to the opposite course and assure the patient, even after the first treatment which might have been a slight success, that he saw from definite symptoms that hypnosis had set in.
Especially in earlier times, the theory was often proposed that hypnosis is an artificial hysteria.
Not what happens during the hypnosis but what the suggestion will produce after hypnosis is essential to him.
Further in those most complex hysteric cases of dissociated personality, new memory connections may be formed during the hypnosis by which a synthesis of the double or triple personalities into the old one may be secured.
He was unwilling to believe that he had been in hypnosis at all.
He does not feel sure that, for instance, a deep hypnosis is without dangerous results or that he will be able to produce it in the technically correct way.
We had to speak of the psychophysics of sleep when we discussed the theoretical relation of sleep to hypnotism and insisted that it is misleading to consider hypnosis simply as partial sleep.
I add this case to demonstrate that hypnosis is not the only open way of treatment in such cases and that the variations must always be adjusted to the special conditions.
This has nothing to do with the fact that hypnosis is best brought about by suggesting the idea of sleep, that is, the belief that sleep will set in.
This selective process stands decidedly in the center of the hypnotic experience and makes it very doubtful whether we are psychophysically on the right track, if we make much of the slight similarity between hypnosis and sleep.
Hypnosis and hysteria thus represent the highest degrees of suggestibility, the one artificial, the other pathological; the one for suggestions from without, the other for suggestions from within.
During the hypnosis we may also open the storehouse of memory and bring to light the ideas which disturbed the equilibrium of the suffering mind.
Or the hypnosis of the conventional--provided it be glib.
We know what hypnosis can do: let him insist with all his might that he does belong there, and one begins to suspect that he may be right; that he may have higher perceptions of what's right.
During hypnosis there is no trace of this thought-reading.
If she is ordered during hypnosis to remember what she has said or done, she remembers.
Hypnosis and trance, in Mrs Piper, have no points of resemblance.
When later she heard it stated with authority, by men reputed to be versed in psychic knowledge, that a subject in hypnosis cannot be willed to act contrary to the instincts of his or her better nature, she held her peace, but wondered.
Without a mistake the woman in hypnosisiterated the commands imposed upon her.
I have had subjects learn self-hypnosis in about 30 minutes, but I must also relate that I have worked with subjects for one year before they achieved it.
Needless to say, hypnosis is contraindicated in many emotional problems because of the very nature of the problem itself.
One theory about hypnosis states that it allows the subject an opportunity of identifying with the hypnotist, whom he sees as a powerful figure.
Even if the subject insists that he wants to be hypnotized immediately, he may be resisting hypnosis unconsciously.
If he loses confidence in the hypnotist, he may never achieve hypnosis with this particular hypnotist.
For that reason, the practical uses of self-hypnosis will be limited to measures that can be taken safely by the layman.
I was able to hypnotize him easily at his next appointment, and he acquired self-hypnosis readily from that time on.
What are they really saying, and what does hypnosis represent to such an individual?
His experimentation helps develop not only new procedures, but new concepts relative to the general nature of hypnosis and its many ramifications.
One of the objections that you hear to hypnosis is that it can be dangerous in the hands of those not trained in the psychodynamics of human behavior.
Actually, hypnotists today always teach their subjects self-hypnosis so that any chance of dependency is obviated.
But Wimperley and Birch shared the belief that Clark, in the meantime, should be kept in the background, lest his hypnosis should envelop them as of old.
It is interesting to note that though constantly the acts performed during hypnosis are not recalled when awake, they are fully remembered on a second hypnosis.
But those who needed hypnosis the most rejected it the most vehemently.
It would have left him in psychotic break at the end, if he had not had the recuperative buffer of hypnosis to help him.
But it was also known that the human body under the soothing suggestion of hypnosis could be carried up to that margin of safety and beyond.
Yet, though hypnosis was necessary, the men who came to the Mercy Men without fail rejected hypnosis.
Freud had learned that the amnesias of hypnosis and of hysteria were not absolute but relative and that in covering the lost memories, much more, of unexpected sort, was often found.
While analysts who avail themselves of hypnosis as a means of help have all their patients take a reclining position, those who have given up hypnotism in their treatment, have also given up this reclining position.
A first attempt to induce hypnosis was successful.
After some minutes he sees in the hypnosis a locomotive approaching.
Many processes of hypnosis are more or less satisfactorily explained; others as yet not at all.
Immediately after the hypnosis she went away quietly to the place of the disaster and was the only one to keep her presence of mind and put things in order.
It is quite indifferent whether the subjective sentiment of sleep occurs more or less in the state of hypnosis or suggestion.
They cultivate introspection, but not the complete self-hypnosis of Zen.
In hypnosis we depend on the condition of the patient's capacity for transference, yet we are unable to exert any influence on this capacity.
The condition of hypnosis could prevent the physician from realizing the existence of a resistance.
We, on the other hand, must realize that we have excluded hypnosis from our technique of neurosis only to rediscover suggestion in the shape of transference.
Hypnosis drives back the resistance and frees a certain field for the work of analysis, but similarly to the doubt in the compulsion neurosis, in so doing it clogs the boundaries of this field till they become impenetrable.
People inhypnosis have been known to repeat verbatim whole passages from newspapers which they had never consciously read.
Hypnosis may thus be a valuable aid to diagnosis, enabling the physician to determine the cause of troublesome symptoms.
What is known as post-hypnotic suggestion is the functioning of a suggestion received during hypnosis and emerging later as an impulse without being recognized as a memory.
In hypnosis a person can be made to believe almost anything and to do almost anything compatible with the safety and the moral sense of the individual.
When by means of hypnosis a great mass of forgotten material was brought to the surface and later made plain to her consciousness, the symptoms disappeared as if by magic.
It was through hypnosisthat Freud, Janet, Prince, and Sidis made their first investigations into the nature of nervousness and worked their first cures.
The dangers of hypnosishave been much exaggerated.
On this account, in a dream and in profound hypnosis acts appear feasible and possible which with our full personal consciousness we would not dare to contemplate.
His eyes are practically normal, and all his sensibilities (save for tardier response) about the same in hypnosis as in waking.
An eminent hypnotist recently asserted that in every hypnosis there occurs an actual if not easily defined influence of the hypnotized upon the hypnotist, and that without this the effect would not be produced.
By the time I realized I was reacting to a post-hypnotic suggestion, that in fact I was going under hypnosis again, it was too late and I could only think that this was worse than death because in a way I would be alive .
These words, passionate and imperious, acted like hypnosis upon Gladishev.
In hypnosis the memories and emotions in the unconscious may be brought to the surface, and in sleep the unconscious, escaping from the control of the consciousness, sends up thoughts and feelings which manifest themselves in dreams.
In the induction of hypnosis the essentials are quiet surroundings and confidence of success on the part of both operator and subject.
The substituted stream is made up of suggestions from the operator and of material from the unconscious, for the hypnosis may be used to revive memories that have been lost to the consciousness through repression.
The performer is then in a state resembling hypnosis, and, as we have seen before, in hypnosis the senses may be abnormally sharpened.
This is purely a circulatory phenomenon, but experiments have been made under hypnosis in which the skin is touched with a pencil and the subject is told that he is being burnt and that a blister will follow.
Further hypnosiswas tried and, although the hypnotic state was induced as before, suggestion had no further effect on the drinking habit.
The fact that there may or may not be during the waking state a recollection of the events in a previous hypnosisshows that the dissociation may be continuous or abrupt (see Chapter IV).
The patient was in that condition of dissociation or partial hypnosis into which these men easily pass, and was apparently 'seeing' some of the horrors he had experienced.
Several sittings may be necessary before any depth ofhypnosis is obtained.
The repression was so complete that after its first revival underhypnosis it was 'forgotten' again and again at subsequent interviews in the waking state.
In hypnosis we have another example of dissociation; during the process of induction the stream of consciousness is thinned out or completely abolished according to the depth of hypnosis.
The hyperaesthesia belonging to the unconscious is shown in other conditions than hypnosis and ordinary sleep.
From being in love to hypnosis is evidently only a short step.
It is true thathypnosis can also be evoked in other ways, for instance by fixing the eyes upon a bright object or by listening to a monotonous sound.
He thinks that two sorts of hypnosis are to be distinguished: one coaxing and soothing, which he considers is modelled upon the mother, and another threatening, which is derived from the father.
Hypnosis has a good claim to being described as a group of two; there remains as a definition for suggestion--a conviction which is not based upon perception and reasoning but upon an erotic tie.
It would seem to arouse a feeling like that of fascination in hypnosis (p.
Hypnosis is distinguished from a group formation by this limitation of number, just as it is distinguished from being in love by the absence of directly sexual tendencies.
To this extent it resembles hypnosis and group formation in having the character of a regression, which is absent from being in love.
Hypnosis is not a good object for comparison with a group formation, because it is truer to say that it is identical with it.
Now the command to sleep inhypnosis means nothing more nor less than an order to withdraw all interest from the world and to concentrate it upon the person of the hypnotist.
It seems to me worth emphasizing the fact that the discussions in this section have induced us to give up Bernheim's conception of hypnosis and go back to the naif earlier one.
And it is so understood by the subject; for in this withdrawal of interest from the outer world lies the psychological characteristic of sleep, and the kinship between sleep and the state of hypnosis is based upon it.
It is only that everything is even clearer and more intense in hypnosis, so that it would be more to the point to explain being in love by means of hypnosis than the other way round.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hypnosis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: autosuggestion; counseling; ecstasy; hypnosis; hypnotism; psychotherapy; rapture; trance
