Hypnotism References

~ Glossary ~

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Abreaction: the process of releasing pent-up
tensions by releasing or re-living the
experience that caused the emotional tension.

Age Regression: re-living through
hypnotically produced hypermnesia,
experiences which have be forgotten or
repressed.

Analgesia: insensibility to pain.

Anesthesia: partial or complete loss of feeling.

Amnesia: loss of memory.

Apathy: indifference - lack of interest and emotions.

Automatic Writing: writing with no conscious awareness of the content of
the produced material.

Autosuggestion: suggestion given to
oneself.

Blocking: difficulty in recollecting or
interpretation of instructions doe to
subconscious emotional factors.

Card-Stacking: persuasisive device in
which facts are selected to give a false
impression without actually telling a
falsehood.

Censor: a defense mechanism contained
in the subconscious mind which functions
as a guard to prevent the emergence of
repressed material into consciousness.

Chevreul's Pendulum: movement of a
pendulum directed subconsciously.

Clairvoyance: being aware of an external
object without the use of the sense organs.

Compulsion: bizarre action which the
individual does not understand, but feels
impelled to preform.

Conditioning: a method of learning in which
patterns of behavior develop with a
relationship to past experience or
suggestions.

Conscious Mind: mental activity which
involves the perception currently active.

Deductive Reasoning: process of arriving
at at valid conclusions from available data.

Delusion: a false belief.

Empathy: an objective awareness of the
feelings, emotions and behavior of another
individual with interjection you personal
attitudes.

Extra-Sensory-Perception (ESP): perception
without the use of known senses.

Functional Illness: affection the function of
the body but not the structure.

Glove Anesthesia: loss of ability to feel in
the hand.

Hallucinations: a false perception that has
no real basis.

Heterohypnosis: a hypnotic situation with
at least one subject and one hypnotist.

Heterosuggestion: direct suggestion.

Homosuggestion: indirect suggestion.

Hypermnesia: heightened ability to remember
or recall information which would not normally
be recallable

Hypnoidal: a rest state--between the waking
and hypnotic state.

Hypnosis: the trace state, per se.

Hypnotic: tending to produce hypnosis
(or sleep).

Hypnotism: the science of hypnosis.

Hypnotist: one who produces hypnosis.

Hypnotist Technician (Hypnotechnician):
a hypnotist who is capable with all aspects
of hypnotism. The qualifications involve
extensive knowledge in the science of
hypnotism, the art of the hypnotic induction,
and the ability in the practical application.
[ed. note: This was a 1960's dream that never
materialized.]

Ideomotor Action: nonvoluntary movement
produced as the direct expression of an idea.

Illusion: a mental misinterpretation of
something which has been perceived.

Imagination: formation of images or
thoughts not present to the senses (form
the subconscious).

Inductive Reasoning: thinking that involves
pulling together available facts and making
an intuitive jump in the reasoning process
for the value judgment.

Lethargic: drowsy; dull; heavy.

Psychic: of the mind.

Psychosomatic: Usually refers to illnesses
in which the manifestations are primarily
physical, but with emotional or mental
disturbances being the cause.

Rapport: a feeling of trust and respect
between two individuals.

Regression: the partial or symbolic return
to more infantile patterns of reacting.

Retrogression: regression to a previous
state or lifetime not known to be in the
memory of the perceiver.

Somnambulism: sleep-like state in which
normal waking activities can be carried
out--eye-opening, walking, etc.

Subconscious: storage area of the mind in
which all information is recallable. [Ed note:
I now consider this term archaic.
Neurologically speaking, there is (a)
conscious cognition, and the huge archives
of non-recallable information that is (b)
unconscious. There is certainly the
shades-of-gray in between, but without
specific parameters that could be termed
"subconscious."]

Telepathy: transmission of an image from
one mind to another.

Transference: the modern term for rapport.

Unconscious: non-recallable storage areas
in the mind.

Will Power: power to control the
imagination on a conscious level.
[Ed note: often an exercise in futility.]

~ Bibliography ~

I wish bibliographies weren't an integral part of textbooks. My dilemma: I could easily produce a list of a hundred titles just from my personal library, and even this would leave out thousands of worthy titles. Of course, I could list only the hypnotism references, or I could make the assumption that you already have ample exposure to books on hypnotherapy. I have many volumes written by and about Dr. Erickson. I have a couple of dozen textbooks authored by such authorities as Kroger, Fromm, and Shor, but since hypnotism literature hasn't been on my recent reading list, I decided to do some references not on the typical list. So what I've done is stand in front of my bookcase waiting for a little voice to say…"take me!" I ended up with a couple of dozen volumes that I think deserve a mention, and volumes I mentioned in various chapters of this eBook. I ended up with titles from a broad spectrum of topics. The final nine titles are the reference works I suggest be included in every psychotherapist's library.

Psycho-Cybernetics Maxwell Maltz, Wilshire Book Company (1965)
The New Aerobics Kenneth H. Cooper, Bantam Books (1970)
The Alternative Medicine Handbook Barrie R. Cassileth, Norton (1998)
Fit Or Fat? Covert Bailey, Houghton Mifflin (1998)
The Naked Ape Desmond Morris, McGraw-Hill (1967)
Getting Well Again Carl & Stephanie Simonton, St. Martin's Press (1978)
When I Say No, I Feel Guilty Manuel Smith, Dial Press (1975)
The Evolution of Psychotherapy Edited Zeig, Brunner/Mazel (1987)
Night Falls Fast Kay Redfield Jamison, Knope (1999)
Diet For A Small Planet Ellen Buchman Ewald, Ballantine (1970)
Hypnosis, Questions & Answers Edited, W.W. Norton & Co. (1986)
Clinical Hypnosis--A Multidisciplinary Approach Wester/Smith, Lippencott (1984)
Hypnosis: Developments in Research & New Perspectives Fromm/Shor, Aldine (1979)
Trance & Treatment Spiegel & Spiegel, Basic Books (1978)
The Discovery Of The Unconscious Ellenberger, Basic Books (1970)
FLU - The Story Of The Great Influenza Pandemic Gina Kolata, FSG (1999)
Ultimate Fitness Gina Kolata, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (2003)
Without Conscience Robert D. Hare, Simon & Schuster (1993)
Plain Instructions in Hypnotism & Mesmerism Carpenter, Rockwell (1900)
Suggestive Therapeutics Hippolite Bernheim, University Books (1884)
The Cambridge Illustrated History Of Medicine Edited/Porter, University Press (1996)
The Merck Manual (any edition) A Medical Manual (any date)
Diagnostic Criteria From DSM (latest edition), American Psychiatric Association
Springhouse Drug Reference Edited, Springhouse Corporation (any date)
Stedman's Medical Dictionary Williams & Wilkins (any date)
The AMA Home Medical Adviser (any edition) Random House (any date)
ICD-9-CM Coding Handbook, Edited, (Check www.google.com)
CPT Procedure Codes, State Publication/Workers' Compensation, etc. (Check www.google.com)
Complete Guide To Psychotherapy Drugs And Psychological Disorders Levinson & Levinson, Perigee Books (1997)

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