{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"What can Hypnotherapy Do for you? “Scientific Theories of Hypnosis”","description":"• Diving deep into the unorthodox realm of Hypnotherapy! “Any satisfactory theory of hypnosis should also be a theory bearing on psychology at large\" (Hilgard, 1991)\n\nHypnosis is a human condition involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion. There are competing theories explaining hypnosis and related phenomena. Altered state theories see hypnosis as an altered state of mind or trance, marked by a level of awareness different from the ordinary state of consciousness. In contrast, nonstate theories see hypnosis as, variously, a type of placebo effect or what others see as a redefinition of an interaction with a therapist or form of imaginative role enactment.\n\nDuring hypnosis, a person is said to have heightened focus and concentration. Hypnotized subjects are said to show an increased response to suggestions. Hypnosis usually begins with a hypnotic induction involving a series of preliminary instructions and suggestion. The use of hypnotism for therapeutic purposes is referred to as \"hypnotherapy\", while its use as a form of entertainment for an audience is known as \"stage hypnosis\". Stage hypnosis is often performed by mentalists practicing the art form of mentalism.\n\nHypnosis for pain management \"is likely to decrease acute and chronic pain in most individuals. The use of hypnosis in other contexts, such as a form of therapy to retrieve and integrate early trauma, is controversial within the medical or psychological mainstream. Research indicates that hypnotizing an individual may aid the formation of false memories, and that hypnosis \"does not help people recall events more accurately. The term \"hypnosis\" comes from the ancient Greek word ὑπνος hypnos, \"sleep\", and the suffix -ωσις -osis, or from ὑπνόω hypnoō, \"put to sleep\" (stem of aorist hypnōs-) and the suffix -is. The words \"hypnosis\" and \"hypnotism\" both derive from the term \"neuro-hypnotism\" (nervous sleep), all of which were coined by Étienne Félix d'Henin de Cuvillers in 1820. These words were popularized in English by the Scottish surgeon James Braid (to whom they are sometimes wrongly attributed) around 1841. Braid based his practice on that developed by Franz Mesmer and his followers (which was called \"Mesmerism\" or \"animal magnetism\"), but differed in his theory as to how the procedure worked! The hypnotized individual appears to heed only the communications of the hypnotist and typically responds in an uncritical, automatic fashion while ignoring all aspects of the environment other than those pointed out by the hypnotist. In a hypnotic state an individual tends to see, feel, smell, and otherwise perceive in accordance with the hypnotist's suggestions, even though these suggestions may be in apparent contradiction to the actual stimuli present in the environment. The effects of hypnosis are not limited to sensory change; even the subject's memory and awareness of self may be altered by suggestion, and the effects of the suggestions may be extended (posthypnotically) into the subject's subsequent waking activity. In Trance on Trial, a 1989 text directed at the legal profession, legal scholar Alan W. Scheflin and psychologist Jerrold Lee Shapiro observed that the \"deeper\" the hypnotism, the more likely a particular characteristic is to appear, and the greater extent to which it is manifested. Scheflin and Shapiro identified 20 separate characteristics that hypnotized subjects might display, \"dissociation\"; \"detachment\"; \"suggestibility\", \"ideosensory activity\"; \"catalepsy\"; \"ideomotor responsiveness\";\"age regression\"; \"revivification\"; \"hypermnesia\"; \"[automatic or suggested] amnesia\"; \"posthypnotic responses\"; \"hypnotic analgesia and anesthesia\"; \"glove anesthesia\"; \"somnambulism\"; \"automatic writing\"; \"time distortion\"; \"release of inhibitions\"; \"change in capacity for volitional activity\"; \"trance logic\"; and \"effortless imagination!\n\n--- \n\nThis episode is sponsored by \n· Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app\n\nSupport this podcast: https://anchor.fm/Omeeze/support","author_name":"GMFBA Entertainment"}