Vocabulary For The Hypnotist
Posted on January 30, 2008
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Here is a list of vocabulary words needed for hypnosis
ABREACTION - Emotional purging by talking out or acting out repressed, or partially repressed, harmful emotional material.
AGE REGRESSION - The phenomenon of returning in one’s mind, as well as in one’s behavior, to some earlier period of time or supposed life.
HYPNOTIC AMNESIA- Loss of ability to recall past experiences occurring during hypnosis. When reaching a certain level of trance, the natural tendency of an individual not to carry back to the conscious mind the experiences of the trance state. This trance depth varies with each individual. The individual always knows what is happening while they are in this state and all protections apply.
POST - HYPNOTIC AMNESIA - The subconscious mind will not allow the client to remember experiences in the hypnotic state that it feels would cause him or her the inability to function in normal life. Suggestions for amnesia given by the hypnotist concerning something against the clients moral or religious character, if accepted, will become ineffective in approximately 72 hours.
SPONTANEOUS AMNESIA - A form of amnesia occurring in a subject without receiving any suggestion to this effect. Spontaneous amnesia is a simple psychological defense mechanism.
ANIMAL MAGNETISM - Mesmer’s name for hypnotism selected on the assumption that the state is related to the phenomenon or ordinary magnetism.
ARM LEVITATION - A ideo-motor technique where the subject is able to lift his arm with no conscious effort on his part.
AUTO-HYPNOSIS - Same as self hypnosis. A person is trained to hypnotize himself.
AUTOMATIC NERVOUS SYSTEM - The automatic nervous system plays a vital role in respiration, digestion, circulation of blood and the activity of glands of internal and external secretion. Increased control over the automatic nervous system is common in hypnosis, it is responsible for many striking psychosomatic phenomenon.
CATALEPSY - A form of high suggestibility in which the subject can obtain rigidity of muscle groups through suggestion. “Arm rigid, cannot bend. Eyes stuck tightly, cannot open.”
CHEVREUL PENDULUM - Originally designed by M. Chevreul, any weight object suspended by a chain or string about 15 in long. It is used for determining the subjects suggestibility or uncovering subconscious information that is not available to the conscious mind.
CONSCIOUS LEVEL - The normal waking state of mind.
COUNTER SUGGESTION - A suggestion offered to an individual to challenge his fixed ideas concerning something or to inhibit the effect of a previous belief.
DETACHMENT - When a person is aware of his environment, but does not participate or care to participate.
HYPNOTIC DREAM- A dream suggested by the hypnotist, whatever the purpose; ie., imagery, visualizations.
EIDETIC IMAGERY - Sensory imagery, primarily visual, which practically reaches the clarity of actual perception. It is fairly common in children and extremely rare in adults, but can be readily aroused in hypnosis.
FASCINATION - The method of hypnotizing by fixation of eyes on a small shining object held a little above the subject’s eyes. Originally introduced by James Braid. It is now usually combined with verbal suggestion.
FIXATION - Inducing hypnosis by concentration of attention on a single sensation or object.
FRACTIONATION - A good method of deepening the state of hypnosis, by hypnotizing a person, having the person open eyes, but not emerging from the state, then closing eyes; each time with a suggestion of going deeper each time the eyes are closed.
HYPNOTIC HALLUCINATION- Not like hallucination defined in psychology. Simply having the person create a picture in his mind of something through suggestion.
NEGATIVE HALLUCINATION -The inability to see something that DOES EXIST through suggestion.
POSITIVE HALLUCINATION - The ability to see something that DOES NOT EXIST through suggestion.
HANGOVER - A headache, drowsiness or occasionally nausea created by not bringing the person out of hypnosis properly. Drowsiness commonly following the first induction of a client never having experienced hypnotism previously.
HETERO - HYPNOSIS - Hypnotic state induced by another person.
HYPER - SUGGESTIBILITY - Heightened suggestibility manifested through deep hypnotic state.
HYPNO-ANALYSIS - The practice of analyzing subjects problem and resolution through hypnotic techniques
HYPNOIDAL - A very light state of hypnosis.
HYPNOLOGY - The study of hypnosis.
HYPNOSIS - The by-pass of the critical factor of the conscious mind and the establishment of acceptable selective thinking.
IDEO - MOTOR - Involuntary movement of muscles produced by an idea or suggestion.
IDEO-MOTION - Involuntary movement produced by an idea or suggestion.
IDEO-SENSORY - Pertaining to and affecting the senses.
INDUCTION - The process or technique used to hypnotize the subject.
KINESIS - Physical movement.
KINESTHETIC - Muscles, tendons and organs stimulated by bodily movement.
LETHARGY - A state of hypnosis characterized by general muscular flaccidity.
MESMERISM - The technique of hypnotizing developed by F. A. Mesmer in accordance with his history of animal magnetism.
MONOIDEISM - James Braid’s finding that the state of hypnosis depends on the narrowing or limiting of the subject’s attention.
OBSESSION - A driving, sometimes irresistible idea; when combined with an emotion, is likely to result in action, sometimes endlessly repeated.
PHOBIA - An overwhelming fear of fear.
PRE - HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION - A suggestion given prior to the hypnotic induction which is meant to take place when client is in hypnosis.
PYRAMIDING - A powerful method of deepening hypnosis by changing the induction without telling the subject.
PSYCHOSOMATIC ILLNESS - Physical illness caused by negative mental thoughts.
RAPPORT - The working relationship between the hypnotist and the client.
RESISTANCE - The unwillingness of a subject to accept the hypnotic process; usually due to an inhibition, fear of hypnosis or fear of another nature existing in the client
SEAL - A hypnotic block, produced while client is in the hypnotic state by the operator suggesting to the subject that no one else will be able to hypnotize him/her.
SELECTIVE AMNESIA - Subjects conscious amnesia which is confined to a specific period.
SOMNAMBULISM - The deep working state of hypnosis. In this state the eyes may be opened without waking. Complete amnesia may result. Positive and negative hallucinations may be induced.
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND - The area of mind in which mental processes and possibly resulting behavior take place apart from one’s conscious awareness.
SUGGESTIBILITY - A measurement of a persons susceptibility to suggestion.
SUGGESTION - A hint, proposal, offer or a new alternative idea given in the waking state or otherwise. In hypnosis it is a technique of influencing a subject or of modifying his behavior. Whatever suggestion has done, suggestion can undo.
POST HYPNOTIC SUGGESTION - A suggestion given to a subject in hypnosis that is meant to take place after the person emerges from the hypnotic state.
THERAPEUTIC SUGGESTION - Suggestion aiming at the restoration of someone’s health or serving some purpose of medical treatment.
WAKING SUGGESTION - A suggestion given in a certain manner in a person’s normal state of awareness that is accepted and takes effect.
Source: Gerald Kein
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