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Hypnotism has also been used in forensics, sports, education, physical therapy and rehabilitation.[64] Hypnotism has also been employed by artists for creative purposes most notably the surrealist circle of André Breton who employed hypnosis and automatic writing and sketches for creative purposes.
Some people have drawn analogies between certain aspects of
hypnotism and areas such as crowd psychology, religious hysteria, and
ritual trances in preliterate tribal cultures
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January 15, 2009
Stage hypnosis is a form of entertainment, traditionally employed in
a club or theatre before an audience. Due to stage hypnotists'
showmanship, many people believe that hypnosis is a form of mind
control. However, the effects of stage hypnosis are probably due to a
combination of relatively ordinary social psychological factors such as
peer pressure, social compliance, participant selection, ordinary
suggestibility, and some amount of physical manipulation, stagecraft,
and trickery.[62]
The ... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
Self-hypnosis happens when a person hypnotizes himself or herself,
commonly involving the use of autosuggestion. The technique is often
used to increase motivation for a diet, quit smoking, or reduce stress. People who practice self-hypnosis sometimes require assistance; some people use devices known as mind machines to assist in the process, while others use hypnotic recordings.
Self-hypnosis is said to be a skill one can improve as time goes by,
and can help reduce stage fright, promote rel... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
Hypnotherapy is the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy.[55]
It is used by licensed physicians, psychologists, and in stand-alone
environments. Physicians and psychiatrists may use hypnosis to help
treat depression, anxiety, eating disorders, sleep disorders, and
posttraumatic stress disorder.[56]
Certified hypnotherapists who are not physicians or psychologists
often do treatments for smoking cessation and weight loss. (Success
rates vary: a meta-study researching hypnosis as a quit-smoking too... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
Hypnotherapy has been successfully used as a treatment for irritable bowel syndrome, a pair of researchers who recently reviewed the best studies in this area, conclude,
The evidence for hypnosis as an efficacious treatment of IBS was
encouraging. Two of three studies that investigated the use of hypnosis
for IBS were well designed and showed a clear effect for the hypnotic
treatment of IBS. [40]
Hypnosis for IBS has also received moderate support as an evidence-based treatment in the Natio... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
Modern hypnotherapy can be divided into several major sub-modalities, most notably regression hypnotherapy (or "hypnoanalysis"), Ericksonian hypnotherapy, and cognitive-behavioural hypnotherapy.
Hypnosis has been studied in many clinical situations with varying degrees of success.[30] It has been used as a painkiller,[31] an adjunct to weight loss,[32] a treatment of skin disease,[33] and a way to soothe anxious surgical patients. It has also been used as part of psychological therapy,[34] a ... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
In the latter half of the twentieth century, two factors contributed
to the development of what subsequently became known as the
cognitive-behavioural approach to hypnosis. 1) Cognitive and
behavioural theories of the nature of hypnosis (influenced by the
seminal theories of Sarbin[21] and Barber [22]) became increasingly influential. 2) The therapeutic practices of hypnotherapy and various forms of cognitive-behavioural therapy overlapped and influenced each other.[23] Although cognitive-beh... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
Milton H. Erickson,
M.D. was one of the most influential post-war hypnotherapists. He wrote
several books and journal articles on the subject. During the 1960s,
Erickson was responsible for popularizing a new branch of hypnotherapy,
which became known as Ericksonian hypnotherapy,
eventually characterized by, amongst other things, the absence of a
formal hypnotic inductions, and the use of indirect suggestion,
"metaphor" (actually they were analogies, rather than "metaphors"),
confusion techni... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
The next major event in the history of hypnotism came as a result of
the progress of behavioural psychology in American university research.
Clark L. Hull, an eminent American psychologist, published the first major compilation of laboratory studies on hypnosis, Hypnosis & Suggestibility
(1933), in which he conclusively proved that the state of hypnosis and
the state of sleep had nothing in common. Hull published many
quantitative empirical findings derived from experiments using hypnosis
and... Continue reading...
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January 15, 2009
Émile Coué (1857-1926) served for around two years as an assistant to Ambroise-Auguste Liébeault
in his group hypnotic at Nancy. However, after practising for several
years as a hypnotherapist employing the methods of Liébeault and
Bernheim's Nancy School, Coué gradually began to develop a new
orientation called "conscious autosuggestion."
Several years after Liébeault's death in 1904, Coué founded what became
known as the New Nancy School, a loose collaboration of practitioners
who ta... Continue reading...
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Hi it's Paul here,
I
am your typical Aussie bloke who really wanted to be able to hypnotize
people. Why do you ask? Well my whole life I have had problems with
people taking advantage of me and also just walking all over me so I
thought that's it! I am going to make a change to this.
Luckily Igor Ledochowski was someone I stumbled onto and I owe this bloke a huge debt of gratitude, thanks to his power of conversational hypnosis I am now the master of my own fate.
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