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Hypnosis - College Essay

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 engages the attention of a subject and assigns
certain tasks to him or her while uttering monotonous, repetitive verbal
commands; such tasks may include muscle relaxation, eye fixation, and arm
levitation. Hypnosis also may be self-induced, by trained relaxation,
concentration on one's own breathing, or by a variety of monotonous
practices and rituals that are found in many mystical, philosophical, ...

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behavior they manifest objectively, are the product of their
motivational set; that is, behavior reflects what is being sought from the
experience.

Most people can be easily hypnotized. The depth of trance, however, will
vary from a light state close to waking, to a profound state of
somnambulism. A profound trance is characterized by a forgetting of trance
events and 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 exposure of buried fears and ...

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Added: 6/19/2006 07:49:13 AM
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