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A Glossary of
Hypnosis
ABREACTION –
an upsurge of emotion, often related to a negative experience in the
client’s past, that releases pent-up feelings
and thus provides relief from the earlier trauma.
AFFECT BRIDGE - a technique
hypnotherapists use to access a previous instance of a client’s
problem by accentuating the disturbing feelings in the present so
his current adult resources can be used to resolve the source of the
problem.
AGE PROGRESSION –
also known as FUTURE PACING means to encourage the hypnotized client
to imagine him or herself in the future.
AGE REGRESSION –
the hypnotherapist suggests the hypnotized client imagine a particular
time or event within their current life
ANALGESIA – Feeling
no pain. The hypnotized client does feel pressure, or tickling.
AMNESIA -- forgetting
events. People who have a terrific talent for hypnosis may have spontaneous
amnesia for the session and others can ask for a post-hypnotic suggestion
to forget what has been discussed during hypnosis.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM –
Dr Anton Mesmer’s term for what is now known as Mesmerism –
the forerunner of today’s hypnotherapy.
AUTO-HYPNOSIS - Hypnotising
yourself. Also known as SELF-HYPNOSIS.
AUTO-SUGGESTION –
Giving suggestions to yourself. a.k.a. SELF-TALK. These messages are
absorbed by the subconscious. Thus, a hypnotic process.
CATALEPSY – Hypnotists
sometimes use this as a proof to a client that she is in hypnosis.
Her arm, for instance, remains in whatever position the hypnotist
puts it.
CLINICAL HYPNOSIS - the
therapeutic use of hypnosis (as, for instance, in a clinic!).
COMPOUNDING – Building
one suggestion on top of another. Can be used as an induction (“Your
right foot is relaxed and as your right foot relaxes your ankle is
relaxed and as your foot and ankle relax your calf muscles relax...”)
or for post-hypnotic suggestions.
DISSOCIATION -- A “splitting
off” of the self so as to protect the mind from something undesirable
or horrible. Thus a hypnotized client is able (in his imagination)
to distance himself from an otherwise disturbing event.
FORENSIC HYPNOSIS - Legal
applications of hypnosis.
FRACTIONATION –
Rapidly bringing a client in and out of hypnosis during the session
either as an induction or to deepen the level of hypnosis.
HYPNOANALYSIS –
Using hypnosis to get to the root of an issue.
HYPNOTISM – an earlier
word now largely supplanted by the word “hypnosis.”
HYPNOSIS –
Hypnosis is like daydreaming: a form of relaxed concentration. Definitions
vary tremendously. hypnosis
definitions
HYPNOTHERAPY – Hypnotizing
someone and then using psychotherapeutic techniques.
HYPNOTIZABILITY –
An outmoded term that describes a person’s individual susceptibility
to hypnosis. I prefer to refer to a person’s “talent for
hypnosis.”
IDEOMOTOR RESPONSE - the
involuntary ability of muscles (e.g. fingers) to instantly respond
to a thought or feeling.
INDUCTION – the
process of guiding someone into hypnosis (most frequently by the use
of words but can also be physical).
NEGATIVE HALLUCINATION
– When a hypnotized person cannot see what is really there.
POSITIVE HALLUCINATION
- When a hypnotized person sees what is NOT really there.
POSTHYPNOTIC SUGGESTION
– A suggestion made while a person is in hypnosis to be acted
upon after the session.
PYRAMIDING OF SUGGESTIONS
– Same as COMPUNDING SUGGESTIONS.
SELF HYPNOSIS –
putting yourself into hypnosis.
SOMNAMBULISM - in everyday
language the term somnambulism is means sleepwalking; but in the field
of hypnotism somnambulism refers to the deepest state of hypnosis.
TIME DISTORTION –A
characteristic effect of being in hypnosis – the passage of
time can be subjectively experienced as longer of shorter than in
reality.
TRANCE LOGIC
– The ability of someone in hypnosis to temporarily accommodate
contrary concepts at the same time.
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