Hypnotic induction
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Hypnotic induction is the process undertaken by a hypnotist to establish the state or conditions required for hypnosis to occur.
Self-hypnosis is also possible, in which a subject listens to a taped induction or plays the roles of both hypnotist and subject.
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Literary examples
- Billy Prior, the protagonist of The Eye in the Door, develops a form of self-hypnosis for himself: “I was watching the sunlight on a glass...I went into the shine on the glass”.
- In George du Maurier's Trilby, we are told of the hypnotist Svengali that “with one look of his eye – with a word – Svengali could turn her into the other Trilby”.
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See also
- Double bind
- Faith healing
- History of hypnosis
- Hypnoid state
- Hypnosis in popular culture
- Jean Martin Charcot
- Projective identification
- Suggestibility
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