Hypnosis (Psychology)

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Effective communication is central to coaching. Suggestive influencing is expected to occur interpersonally; directly or indirectly, with or without intention. Even without our awareness, we are engaged in a process of suggestive influence. Despite the role suggestions can play in all communicative relationships, very little has been written about how coaches can utilise them to enhance their effectiveness and better meet their coachees’ needs. Although suggestion and suggestibility have been traditionally associated with hypnosis, hypnosis is not required for suggestive influence. When used skillfully, suggestions may affect perception, behavior, cognition, emotion and motivation in a pre-planned manner. They may be intentionally incorporated into a coaching dialogue or added to existing coaching techniques. This paper discusses the nature of suggestions, offers guidelines on how to enhance their impact and describes specific suggestive techniques with accompanying examples which coaching professionals can strategically incorporate in their coaching practice.

Aux origines du spectateur de cinéma.

Entre 1880 et 1920, les champs de la médecine, de la psychologie, de la neuropsychiatrie et de la psychanalyse élaborent des théories de la subjectivité marquées par les phénomènes intrigants de la neurasthénie, de l’hystérie et de l’hypnose. Alors que les discours sur les projections lumineuses s’approprient volontiers la culture du corps nerveux qui circule autour de 1900 dans l’imaginaire médical et populaire, on constate que, parallèlement, le cinématographe devient la nouvelle métaphore du psychisme.

Qu’y a-t-il donc de commun entre le cinéma et les disciplines médico-psychologiques au tournant du XXe siècle ? Sur quelles bases peut-on rapprocher la pratique culturelle des projections lumineuses et les théories du psychisme ? Comment comprendre l’intérêt des savants pour le cinéma et l’influence des sciences sur la manière d’appréhender l’expérience filmique ?

L’ouvrage de Mireille Berton (Section d’histoire et esthétique du cinéma) répond à ces questions en plaçant au centre de l’analyse l’imaginaire du corps nerveux. L’auteure développe une histoire culturelle des premiers spectateurs dans ses interactions avec les disciplines médico-psychologiques.

ABSTRACT: In the present study, we compared directly the efficacy of two types of hypnotic induction instructions on a forced-choice clairvoyance task in a sample of participants selected for their medium to high absorption or transliminality scores. The first kind of instructions (ESP) emphasized the capacity to visualize a remote picture, freeing the mind from any thinking activity. The second kind of instructions, the out-of-body experience (OBE), emphasized leaving the body and allowing the mind to go where the target was presented ...

El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el problema del hipnotismo en la ciencia
y la cultura de Buenos Aires durante el último cuarto del siglo xix. Desde el momento en
que la medicina argentina comenzó a interesarse teórica y prácticamente por la hipnosis,
se vio enfrentada a una multiplicidad de actores (espiritistas, ilusionistas, curanderos) que
también hacían uso, con fines divergentes, de ese instrumento. En este texto se coloca
el énfasis en la descripción de las tensiones y disputas sostenidas entre los médicos y
sus competidores. Además de rastrear los profesionales que aportaron al estudio de la
nueva terapia, se señalan las estrategias llevadas a cabo por los representantes de la ciencia
oficial para acabar con otro tipo de utilizaciones del sonambulismo artificial.

This article analyses the place and value of occult arts in the healthcare market of Republican China (1912-1949). Medical historiography has long neglected the resilience of such occult arts as talismans, astrology and divination in the context of China's search for modernity. Focusing on the production, trade, and consumption of goods and services related to talismanic healing, I give voice to Chinese occultists by investigating the formation of a 'market of the occult' in the Republican era. I adopt a global perspective to clarify the changes that occult healing underwent following the popularisation of new printing technologies, mass media and transnational spiritualism in early twentieth-century China. Erstwhile embraced in secrecy, the occult was now being made public. Cheap manuals, wide-circulation newspapers and book catalogues reveal that in contrast to past studies that herald the disenchantment of the world as the hallmark of Chinese modernity, occult healing did not simply survive but thrived in the face of modern science and technology.

This is the foreword to my book "Flipside: A Tourist's Guide on How to Navigate the Afterlife" including an interview with psychologist Michael Newton.  While I am a professor (film) this is for those in academia curious about "between life hypnotherapy" which includes past life regressions, and beyond that, memories from between lives that aren't stored in memory banks, but somewhere else.  I show how they could not be cryptomnesia in "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" vols one and two, as they include new information that the subject could not have accessed during their lifetime, and yet is verifiable and replicable.  It's not your usual Academia article, apologies for that, but a mere stone tossed into a pond to see if the ripples find the place they're supposed to go.

Special issue of "Culture Unbound". Through an introduction and six original articles, the issue investigates a variety of cultural and scientific discourses and practices that in different ways are related to neuroscience and the brain.

The special issue was edited by guest editors Peter Bengtsen and Kristofer Hansson.

Coaching psychology has not given much thought to hypnosis, despite its long history of applications in enhancing human abilities and potentials. Since a range of psychotherapeutic strategies have been successfully transitioned to coaching and are commonly practiced by coaches and coaching psychologists, it is suggested that hypnotic techniques and principles can also be successfully employed to meet coaching objectives. This paper mainly discusses: (a) the use of self-hypnosis for the coachee; (b) adapting ageprogression and age-regression to fit coaching needs; and (c) the use of indirect suggestions in the coaching dialogue to enhance coachee receptivity. The term ‘coaching hypnosis’ is proposed when referring to the use of hypnosis in coaching as it will help to separate links with hypnotherapy and encourage it to build an identity of its own.

The aim of this article is to evaluate the vividness of visual imagery from three different sample groups:
a contemporary dance group (n = 24), a group of modified state of consciousness experts (n = 24) and a
group of students (n = 48). We argue that the mental imagery activity into low vigilance level and into a
modified state of consciousness has a closed link mechanism with vividness of visual imagery. We show
that the modified state of consciousness experts reached a significantly higher level of vividness open-eyes
score than the group of students. This could mean that higher open-eyes score is a cognitive trait of hypnotic
susceptibility linked to specific training. These results stem from research into the close relationship between
imagery and perception. We present a French adaptation and a French translation of Vividness of Visual
Imagery Questionnaire, too. The VVIQ [Br. J. Psychol. 64 (1973) 17–24] is a questionnaire very used in
clinical psychology and in cognitive psychology.

Ce texte a été publié dans le numéro 38 de Métaphores (septembre 1996), bulletin de l'Institut Milton H. Erickson de Belgique. Il a été republié dans le Guide du Mieux-être. Il a fait l'objet d'un commentaire détaillé par François Roustang dans le texte « L'hypnose est communication » (in Hypnose, language et communication, sous la direction de Didier Michaux, Editions Imago, 1998 )

Dans le volet 1 de cette étude où nous avons présenté le fonctionnement général de la mémoire, il a surtout été question de la mémoire au sens commun, à savoir la mémoire qui permet l'expression de souvenirs et/ou de connaissances. Nous avons mis au premier plan la synthèse réalisée dans leur ouvrage « La mémoire, de l'esprit aux molécules » par Eric Kandel (prix Nobel 2000 pour ses travaux sur ce thème) et son alter ego Larry Squire.

This paper is the first study of its kind to examine and present an in-depth idiographic study of a hypnotised individual’s subjective experience. The work aims to analyse major hypnotic themes in relation to well debated theories of hypnosis. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with participants who had never had any previous experiences with hypnosis. The resultant transcripts were subject to interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four themes are presented in the study: acceptance, accessible, mind-and-self relationship, and intensity. These themes are discussed in detail and linked theoretical hypnosis frameworks. The complex exploration of a hypnotised individual’s subjective experience of the process involves the discussion of participant feedback and is linked to state theories of hypnosis, particularly the neodissociation theory. The study’s findings reveal a new perspective of hypnosis in relation to its theoretical framework and supports further investigation of hypnosis as a therapeutic medium.

How can an evangelist convert a hardboiled sophisticate? Why does a POW sign a "confession" that he knows is false? How is a criminal pressured into admitting his guilt? Do the evangelist, the POW's captor, and the policeman use similar methods to gain their ends? These and other compelling questions are discussed in the definitive work by William Sargant, who for many years until his death in 1988 was a leading physician in psychological medicine.

This is the introduction to my book "It's a Wonderful Afterlife" volume one, which includes interviews with Dr. Bruce Greyson (UVA) Mario Beauregard PhD, Gary Schwartz PhD. It includes an interview with NDE survivor David Bennett, former Navy science officer who saw some unusual events in his near death experience, including that he would survive cancer in the future. He's been studied at DOPS at the University of Virginia. Again, not a scientific paper, but because it's an interview, I offer it as another stone dropped in a pond, to see where the ripples might land.  I've filmed 25 deep hypnosis sessions, compared the results to Dr. Helen Wambach's research, Michael Newton's research, and further, filmed people who had a near death experience, and could recall events and details while fully conscious, bypassing hypnosis altogether.

This paper describes in detail those aspects of trance that facilitate the ongoing therapy process with the borderline personality and secondly, the utilization of trance phenomena to directly work with the borderline person's experience and particular ego deficits, elaborated from an object relations viewpoint.

Liaison psychiatry is often the first step in the psychiatric care of patients suffering from somatic symptom disorder (SSD), and efficient treatment options are scarce in this context. The objective of this article is to evaluate medical hypnosis as an efficient and feasible therapeutic technique for treating SSD in liaison psychiatry. A series of consecutive clinical cases was recruited among patients suffering from SSD who presented to the Caen teaching hospital in France, between May and October of 2015. The treatment included one hypnosis session and one self-hypnosis teaching session, for all the patients included. Self-completed psychopathology questionnaire (SCL90-R) and hetero-completed questionnaire (CPRS), including a somatization level subscale, were filled before and after the hypnosis session. Five cases were included in the series. The general psychopathology level was lower for all patients after the hypnosis session, both for the SCL90-R scale (mean relative reduction: 29%) and the CPRS scale (mean relative reduction: 51%). The somatization level was lower for all patients after the hypnosis session. The SCL90-R somatization score decreased by 42% and the CPRS somatization score decreased by 47%. The results of this descriptive study seem to indicate that hypnosis may be a useful tool for liaison psychiatry professionals in the treatment of SSD. This hypothesis would need further evaluation in a randomized study design. Hypnosis in the treatment of somatic symptom disorder in liaison psychiatry.

Suggestion is a part of communication that cannot be stripped from or be considered separate from verbal and nonverbal communication.  It is through the need to view the communication processes from a complete understanding that this study investigated the possible influence that suggestion may have on an individual’s perception of reality. The existing literature was reviewed with various results from different researchers, however, much of the literature supported previous research done by Spanos et al. (1984) and Bartels et al. (2006).
Their research showed some indications that suggestion, and possibly priming may have an influence on an individual’s perception.  Using their research as a starting point this study developed a mixed-method approach in order to test some aspects of their research.  Ten volunteers participated in a mixed-methods experiment.  A Factorial Design of 2 x 2 enabled a testing of two treatments at the same time.  The participants were tested for level of suggestibility using the Stanford Scale and were then divided into one of four groups.  Groups consisted of high or low suggestible participants who were treated with a suggestion or priming words to determine their level of discomfort when their arm was placed in ice water.  The results were measured on a scale from one to ten. 
The ANOVA showed no statistical difference in the groups.  However, the number of individuals who were unable to complete the testing was all in the high suggestibility group and it appeared that individuals in the priming group, both high and low suggestible, had the greatest reduction in discomfort relative to their baseline.


Keywords: priming, suggestion, perception, reality, ice water, suggestibility, Spanos, Bartels

Although hypnosis was accepted in 1958 by the American Medical Association as an adjunct treatment, it remains an underused modality for alleviation of clients' suffering. This hesitancy to apply established practices that show efficacy in patient care may be due to a general lack of cognizance about the therapeutic benefits of hypnosis or a reluctance to learn skills based on preconceptions about hypnosis itself. The purpose of this article is to provide evidence of the efficacy of hypnosis as an adjunct treatment in the healing professions and explain hypnosis in a manner consistent with the core values of nursing as defined by the American Nurses Association. Implications for mental health nursing practice will be explored.

The object of this research was to compare the effectiveness of two standardized programmes of hypnotic susceptibility modification, that of Sachs and Anderson (1967) and the Carleton Skills Training Package (CSTP) (Gorassini and Spanos, 1986). The results showed a statistically significant difference between these two programmes and the control group for both objective and subjective reponses to the suggestions, but no significant difference between the two programmes. The effectiveness of the CSTP in modifying hypnotic responsiveness scores, which had been placed in doubt in several studies, was confirmed. Copyright © 1998 British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis

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A great American psychologist summarizes one of the most difficult of subjects--the nature of dreaming--after decades of lifting matters out of the morass of Freudianism. The result nonetheless is a thin gruel that misses the main thing about dreams: their unworldly imaginative power. But he is not the only one. Who defends the psyche in modern science? Who knows what it is, where it resides, and how it controls the brain? The true theory of dreaming will emerge only by facing and answering these questions, which can be said to have baffled ancient, medieval, and modern investigators alike. At present materialism stands confused, pathetically benighted in its own shadow.

Readers are now advised that a new approach to the true theory of dreaming, as well as the first mechanistic explanation of Night Terrors in scientific history, is contained in the reviewer's illustrated essay on this page called 'The Last Day.' Both this late 2017 review and the new 2020 essay concern the same foundational ideas within idealism and can be said to blend smoothly together to produce an increasingly coherent view of the phenomenology as well as the fundamental nature of dreaming, the achievement of which depends on isolating and identifying the cosmic generator of dreams.

See also 'Sartre on Dreaming' (2022) and 'On the Materialization of Being' (2022) for deeper insights into the nature of dreaming according to idealism and in the context of the embodiment of the psyche, which reaches far deeper inwardly than the farthest galaxies are from the Solar System.

The role of hypnosis as a mediator for ESP has been documented (see Stanford & Stein's 1994 meta-analysis). Even if it is well established that hypnosis facilitates ESP better than normal awakening or self-relaxation, little, if any, systematic research on the role of specific instructions to induce hypnosis has been carried out. Cardena (2006, 2007) repeatedly underlined that enhanced psi phenomena depend on a trait (high hypnotizability), a state (the hypnotic context), or an interaction between the two. In this paper we manipulated the state, comparing directly the efficacy of two kinds of instructions. The first, which we named ESP, was characterized by the emphasis on the capacity to visualize a remote picture while freeing the mind from any thinking activity. The second, which we named OBE, was characterized by instructions to leave the body and allow the mind to go to the place where the target was presented (see details below). The two instructions were applied by using ...

En Belgique, la jurisprudence autorise l’utilisation de l’hypnose avec les témoins et les victimes volontaires dans les enquêtes judiciaires. Cette méthode n’est pas une technique d’enquête à proprement parler ; elle est davantage à considérer comme un complément aux méthodes d’audition classiques. Elle reste toutefois une pratique mineure réservée aux faits graves tels que meurtres, attaques de banque, viols, traite des êtres humains, etc. lorsque les indices à disposition des enquêteurs sont insuffisants à faire émerger la vérité. Bien que controversée, la méthode a prouvé son efficacité dans de nombreux dossiers. En effet, dans 60% des cas, elle permet de récupérer de nouvelles informations utiles à la progression de l’enquête.

Cigarette addiction is a major health issue, with cessation interventions having modest success. Combining interventions may result in improved treatment outcomes. Self help
formats appeal to smokers, but existing protocols have had low success rates. A benchmark comprehensive psychological treatment regime is yet to be established. CBT and hypnosis are possibly efficacious for smoking cessation, alone and in combination.
Time-series analysis was used to assess the efficacy of an Australian version of Lynn and Green’s combined CBT and hypnotherapeutic treatment protocol in its self-help format in seven smokers over six weeks. Three smokers significantly reduced cigarette intake from baseline, one achieved abstinence. This study provides preliminary evidence supporting the effectiveness of combining CBT and hypnosis in a self-help format for a subset of individuals.