Self Hypnosis Classes

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Qualities of Self Hypnosis

• May or may not feel sleepy
• Usually feel more relaxed
• Increased susceptibility to suggestions
• Enhanced imagery and imagination
• Loss of Initiative

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Qualities of Self Hypnosis (continued)

• Availability of visual memories from the past,
  though possibly distorted
• Lack of desire to make and carry out plans
• Retains ability to initiate or terminate actions

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Qualities of Self Hypnosis (continued)

• Reduction in Reality Testing
• Change in personality
• Accept falsified memories
• Modify the rate which they process time
• Experience the presence of an object that isnt
  there or visa versa

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Standardized Tests for Hypnotic Susceptibility

• Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale
• Three forms
• A and B Emphasize compliance with motor related
  suggestions
• Are parallel, permitting test-retest reliability
• C Emphasizes Cognitive components of hypnotic
  susceptibility

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Standardized Tests for Hypnotic Susceptibility

• Barber Suggestibility Scale
• Like the Stanford test, performed on an
  individual basis, rated by the examiner
• Consists of Only 8 Tasks

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Standardized Tests for Hypnotic Susceptibility

• Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility
• Administered in a group setting
• Subjects score themselves
• Less accurate

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Different Hypnotic Susceptibility Tests
Eye Closure Postural Sway Hand Lowering
Finger Lock Arm Rigidity Verbal Inhibition
Posthypnotic Suggestion Extreme Thirst Suggestion Selective Amnesia
Arm Immobilization Fly Hallucination Eye Roll Test
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Physiological Changes

• Greater advantage of left body parts
• Tendency to go towards the right
• Increased Respiration Rates
• Decreased Heart Rate
• Changes in Cortical ERPs

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Hypnotherapy Habit Control

• Obesity
• Direct Suggestion
• Ego - Enhancing Suggestions
• Mental Imagery
• Self Hypnosis
• Audiotapes

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Hypnotherapy Habit Control

• Smoking
• Concentrate on three ideas
• Cigarettes are poison to the body
• Life is not possible without the body
• Life is possible only if one respects and
  protects ones body
• Success Rates
• One Treatment 20
• Five Treatment 63

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Hypnotherapy Phobias

• Used along with systematic sensitization
• Uses imagery of being around a snake
• Very successful in reducing phobias both in and
  outside of laboratory settings

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Hypnosis and Pain Control

• Analgesia The removal of existing pain
• Anesthesia The prevention of the pain that is
  not currently present
• Today, primarily used in conjunction with
  chemical anesthesia

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Hypnosis and Memory

• Amnesia The loss of memory
• Hyperamnesia Improving an individuals memory
  for events experienced in the past
• Reports of witnesses providing new evidence while
  hypnotized
• Many reports of inaccurate recollection or
  confabulation

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Hypnosis and Memory

• Hypnotic Age Regression Taking subjects back n
  time to recall events that happened to them
• In the news recently about hypnosis being used to
  recall childhood sexual abuse. Is this accurate?

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Hypnosis and Perception

• Hypnotic suggestions lead to improvement in
  visual acuity in myopic (nearsighted) subjects
• Hypnotic Deafness can affect auditory sensitivity
  on Visual Choice Reaction Time
• Increased performance on the Stroop Test

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Contemporary Theories of Hypnosis

• Trance Theory Hypnosis involves a trance during
  which the subject is in a heightened state of
  susceptibility to suggestion
• Hidden Observer When asked to write down
  information, will often reveal info against what
  he/she has already said
• Changes in cognition

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Contemporary Theories of Hypnosis

• Sociological Role Theory Hypnotized individuals
  behave as they do because they are striving to
  enact the role of a hypnotized subject as it is
  defined by the hypnotist and society in general
• There is no significant cognitive change

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Contemporary Theories of Hypnosis

• Task-Motivation Theory Hypnosis is not an
  altered state of consciousness, rather it is a
  predisposition in a normal state of awareness to
  attend to commands and suggestions from a
  hypnotist.

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