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Hypnosis
Hypnosis, is an altered state of consciousness and heightened
responsiveness to suggestion; it may be induced in normal people by a
variety of methods and has been used in medical and psychiatric treatment.
Most frequently hypnosis is brought about through the actions of an
operator, the hypnotist, who eng ....
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.... by an ability to respond automatically to posthypnotic
suggestions that are not too anxiety-provoking. The depth of trance
achievable is a relatively fixed characteristic, dependent on the emotional
condition of the subject and on the skill of the hypnotist. Only 20 percent
of subjects are capable of entering somnambulistic states through the usual
methods of induction. Medically, this percentage is not significant, since
therapeutic effects occur even in a light trance.
Hypnosis can produce a deeper contact with one's emotional life, resulting
in some lifting of repressions and ex ....
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