Hypnosis
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"This work owes its existence to observations of the effects of therapeutic suggestion upon individuals subject to contrary sexuality. The favorable results obtained in "congenital" urnings by psychical treatment in the hypnotic state placed before me the alternative either to assume that suggestion is capable of influencing congenital abnormalities of the mind or to prove that in the idea of homo-sexuality at present prevalent the hereditary factor is overestimated, to the disadvantage of educational influences."--Therapeautic Suggestion in Psychopathia Sexualis (1898) by Albert von Schrenck-Notzing |
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Hypnosis (from the Greek hypnos, "sleep") is "a trance-like state that resembles sleep but is induced by a person whose suggestions are readily accepted by the subject."
See also
- Recreational hypnosis
- Highway hypnosis
- History of hypnosis
- Hypnagogia
- Hypnosis in popular culture
- Hypnosurgery
- Hypnotherapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Hypnotic
- Neuro-linguistic programming
- Scientology and hypnosis
- Sedative (also known as sedative-hypnotic drug)