A certain professional hypnotizer claims that once he has hypnotized a person he can keep that person forever after under his influence by means of post-hypnotic suggestion.
This is the theory offered by Mesmer, and those who hold it assume that "the hypnotizer exercises a force, independently of suggestion, over the subject.
He shows his inconsistency when he states that under certain circumstances the hypnotizer is in danger of becoming hypnotized himself.
Says he: "It is a common delusion that the mesmerist or hypnotizer counts for anything in the experiment.
If the hypnotizer is an honest man, and a man of character, little injury may follow.
Hypnotism is an established scientific fact; but the claim that the hypnotizer has any mysterious psychic power is the invariable mark of the charlatan.
A noted public hypnotizer in Paris some years ago produced fascination in the following manner: He would cause the subject to lean on his hands, thus fatiguing the muscles.
It will be remembered that a professional hypnotizer or magnetizer had hypnotized him by telling him to fix his mind on the number twenty-six and holding up his hand.
If, on the other hand, the personality of the hypnotizer and the crime itself are repugnant to the hypnotic subject, he will absolutely refuse to do as he is bidden, even while in the deepest hypnotic sleep.
When the subject lies down to sleep or submits himself to the hypnotizer he arrests as far as possible the flow of his thoughts, and the sensory stimuli are diminished in number and intensity.
It was during the sleep that the will of the hypnotizer controlled that of the subject, not before.
The subject only preserves the spontaneity and will that his hypnotizer leaves him, who at his pleasure makes him sad, gay, angry, or tender, and plays with his soul as with an instrument.
The cases where a hypnotizer intentionally suggests sexual perversion probably exist only in theory.
These attractive sexual sensations or sentiments may affect both the hypnotizer and the hypnotized and provoke love scenes, which are fatal to success.
The seducer plays the part of the hypnotizer who suggests, while the seduced plays the part of the hypnotized, unless the seduction is due to fear, weakness of mind or good nature.
If the discovery of an imposture or abuse of power on the part of the hypnotizer weakens or destroys the effect of suggestion, the hypnotized subject recovers herself.
It is quite otherwise with cases where a hypnotizer produces in a hypnotized woman a state of deep somnambulism and does harm to her without her knowledge.
The following case shows us what prudence on the part of the hypnotizer can do with patients of this kind: A young girl, of good education, was troubled with intense sexual desire.
This is usually free from danger when there is no natural sexual attraction between thehypnotizer and the hypnotized; when, for example, a normal man hypnotizes another man, a normal woman another woman, or an invert another invert.
Here again the gradations are infinite, and no absolute rules can be formulated, for if the hypnotizer is very skillful and does not let his intentions appear, the subjective sentiment of constraint may be absolutely wanting; i.
A hypnotizermay abuse his suggestive power to exploit the love of the hypnotized.
This library may then become a garden where the hypnotized person picks flowers from the floor, and the wise man stands on one leg and repeats the alphabet, if the hypnotizer asks him to do so.
Just because the hypnotizer can entirely change the desires and passions, the habits and perversities of the suffering victim, he seems to them a moral wrongdoer who negates the principle of human freedom.
This opposition argues as follows: Hypnotic influence brings the patient under the will control of the hypnotizer and thus destroys his own freedom.
Only that which at least takes its starting point from the words or the movements of the hypnotizer finds over-sensitive suggestibility.
Perhaps the hypnotizer says that he will count three and at three the subject is to open his eyes and feel perfectly comfortable.
It must naturally often lead to a point where the subject finds that he can very well still do what the hypnotizer told him not to do.
One of the most singular as well as important points in connection with hypnotism is the rapport or relationship which exists between the hypnotizer and the hypnotized subject.
Regarding the hallucinations which may be produced in the mind of the hypnotized subject by the hypnotizerthere can be no doubt.
He was a master of methods, possessing a knowledge of the minutest details of the psychological aspect of the subject, and therefore the most powerful hypnotizer of the age, perhaps.
Yet the phenomenon is possible with even these, provided the hypnotizer be one who is a past-master in methods, and possesses the most effective power of conveying suggestion.
The hypnotic subject has at least the mind and will of the hypnotizerto direct him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hypnotizer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
