Hypnotisability appears to hinge on the degree to which a person can engage in fantasy and be distracted: 20% of individuals are easily hypnotised, while 20% are virtually “hypnosis-proof” children are less confined by reality-based thinking, and thus more easily hypnotised. Hypnotherapy involves helping a person enter a deeply relaxed state.
The implications for advancing research and. Hypnosis has some support in mainstream psychiatry and anaesthesiology the major effect of hypnosis is relaxation and possibly control of habits, and is said to be useful in speech therapy, smoking cessation, ameliorating panic disorders and in low back pain. The definition of hypnosis is presented as well as definitions of the following related terms: hypnotic induction, hypnotizability, and hypnotherapy. hypnosis, special psychological state with certain physiological attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state. Hypnosis is a trance-like mental state in which people experience increased attention, concentration, and suggestibility. Hypnosis has theoretical currency in behaviour modification and biofeedback, in which a person learns to focus his or her attention on thoughts or images that are unrelated to a particular stimulus (e.g., cancer-related pain).
The induction of a trance state in an individual, which is defined by the presence of trance phenomena in the form of objective physical changes (see trance state), subjective perceptual changes and a co-operative interaction with the hypnotist. Hypnosis: A state of consciousness involving focused attention and reduced peripheral awareness characterized by an enhanced capacity for response to suggestion. The American Heritage® Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2007, 2004 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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