GLOSSARY OF TERMS

• ABREACTION - the release of emotionally charged material from the mental process.

• AGE PROGRESSION - advancing the subject's age level while in hypnosis. (future pacing)
• AMNESIA - the loss of memory. The amnesia which frequently occurs in hypnosis may be either spontaneous or induced by suggestion.
• ANESTHESIA - insensibility to feelings of physical pain.
• ANALYZATION - studying the factors of a situation in order to determine a solution or outcome.
• ANIMAL MAGNETISM - Mesmerism; the principles advocated by Anton Mesmer. ANIMOSITY - resentment tending toward hostile action.
• ANXIETY - a painful uneasiness of mind.
• AUTO-CONDITIONING - a series of experiments designed for bringing one's subconscious under control.
• AUTO-HYPNOSIS - self-hypnosis; automatic hypnosis.
• AUTO-SUGGESTION - self-suggestions; self talk; suggestions distinguished as coming from someone else.
• BLIND SPOT - an area in one's discernment where one fails to exercise understanding. BRAIDISM - those theories advocated by James Braid.
• CATALEPTIC - a muscle seizure.
• CATALEPTIC RIGIDITY - muscle rigidity; number 10 on Davis-Husband scale.
• CATALEPTIC TRANCE - the second stage of hypnotic state; medium trance state.
• CAUSATIVE FACTORS - conditions leading to the development of mental and physical disorders.
• CLAIRVOYANCE - the ability claimed by some individuals to discern objects not actually present.
• CONDITIONED REFLEX - a reflex that responds automatically.
• CONDITIONED SUBJECT - pertains to a subject who has been conditioned to respond to hypnosis.
• CONDITIONING - a series of inductions making certain ideas or things acceptable to the subject's subconscious mind.
• CONSCIOUS - state of being aware of an inward state or an outside fact.
• CONSCIOUS AUTO-SUGGESTION - the persistence in consciousness of impressions gained through subconscious training..
• CONSCIOUS LEVEL CONTROL - the principles of autosuggestion in the waking state.
• CONSCIOUS RECALL - memory.
• COEISM - the principles of autosuggestion as advocated by Emile Coue. (Every day in every way, I am getting better and better.)
• COUNTER REGRESSION - the process of returning from a regressed state to a normal state; this is a normal part of returning from hypnosis.
• COUNTER SUGGESTION - a suggestion given to counter the effect of a previously given one.
• DEFENSE MECHANISM - a mode of behavior, or a belief, adopted by the subject, often unconsciously, to conceal the true state of matters pertaining to oneself.
• DISSOCIATION - the segregation from consciousness of certain components of mental processes which function independently.
• EFFECT - a created condition with hypnotic suggestions.
• EMOTIONAL OUTLET - a habit pattern formed to release emotional tension.
• E.S.P. (Extra-Sensory-Perception) - perception which is mediated by the sense organs.
• FASCINATION POINT - the object upon which the subject fixes his gaze in hypnotic method.
• FATHER HYPNOSIS - the use of a forceful tone for inducing hypnotic state. (See Paternal Method)
• FLACCIDITY - a looseness; an absence of tone seen in muscles of persons relaxed in hypnosis.
• FORENSIC HYPNOSIS - using hypnosis to uncover the truth. (ex;Police use for witness I.D.)
• FRACTIONATION - the procedure of hypnotizing the subject, bringing him to awareness and re-hypnotizing him a consecutive number of times in the same session; an effective means of increasing hypnotic responsiveness.
• FREE ASSOCIATION - spontaneous unrestricted associations of loosely linked ideas or mental images having very little rational sequence or continuity.
• GLOVE ANESTHESIA - a loss of sensation in an area corresponding to that covered by a glove.
• HALLUCINATIONS - a perception arising in the absence of appropriate external stimuli.
• HETRO-SUGGESTION - a suggestion made by operator and directed to subject.
• HYPNOANALYSIS - hypnosis utilizing psychoanalytic techniques.
• HYPNODISC - a disc with spirals used in inducing hypnosis by "eye fatigue".
• HYPNODONTICS - the science and utilization of hypnosis pertaining to dentistry.
• HYPNOGRAPHY - a technique in hypnoanalysis in which the hypnotized subject is allowed to express psychological conflicts through painting or drawing pictures.
• HYPNOTIC INSURANCE - a pre-determined code by the operator given to the subject to return to the hypnotic state instantly. (Post Hypnotic Suggestion)
• HYPNOTIC PASSES - those gestures or movements made by the hypnotist over the body of the subject without actually touching them.
• HYPNOTISM - the science of hypnosis.
• HYPNOTIST - the operator.
• HYPNOTIZE - the act of inducing the hypnotic state.
• HYSTERIA - highly charged, emotional excitability due to internal or external stimuli.
• HYPERMNESIA - a state of abnormally vivid or complete memory or recall of the past.
• HYPERMNESIC - a person with perfect recall while in hypnotic state or waking state.
• HYPERESTHESIA - a high degree of sensitivity.
• IDEO-MOTOR RESPONSE - nonvoluntary movement produced as the direct suggestion of an idea.
• LAY HYPNOTIST - term applied to anyone practicing hypnosis outside of the medical profession.
• MASS HYPNOSIS - induction of a group simultaneously.
• MECHANICAL DEVICE - any object used to induce hypnosis.
• MATERNAL APPROACH - permissive suggestions used to induce hypnosis.
• MONOIDEISM - term coined by Braid for waking hypnosis and light stages of hypnosis.
• MOTHER HYPNOSIS - soft, lulling tones used to induce hypnosis.
• MOTIVATION - the force which determines patterns of behavior.
• NEGATIVE HALLUCINATION - seeing something that is not there.
• OBJECTIVITY - ability to view events, ideas and phenomena as external and apart from self consciousness, detached and impersonal.
• OPERATOR - the hypnotist.
• PAIN - distressing feeling.
• PANACEA - a cure-all.
• PATERNAL APPROACH - direct suggestions; authoritarian
• PHENOMENA - an exceptional, unusual or abnormal thing or occurrence.
• PHOBIA - a morbid fear.
• POSITIVE HALLUCINATION - not seeing something that is there.
• POSTHYPNOTIC SUGGESTION - suggestions made during the hypnotic state to be carried out after awakening.
• PRECONDITIONING - the psychological impression you make on your subject concerning hypnosis.
• (PRE-TALK) PREHYPNOTIC SUGGESTION - a visual or verbal suggestion used to indicate hypnotic conditions
• PREHYPNOTIC TESTS - tests based on reflexes accompanied by suggestion to create certain effects.
• PROFESSIONAL HYPNOTIST - one who makes a living employing the principles of hypnosis.
• PROJECTION - the attributing of one's own feelings to someone else.
• PSYCHOLOGICAL CRUTCH - mentally relying heavily on someone else for your outcome.
• PSYCHOSOMATIC - functional inter-relationship between mind and body.
• RAPPORT - relation of harmony, comfort and accord; state of being in tune with your subject.
• REALITY - true state of anything.
• RIGIDITY - muscle tenseness.
• SELF CONTROL - conscious auto-suggestion.
• SELF HYPNOSIS - placing one's self into a hypnotic state. Skeptic - one who doubts or disbelieves.
• SLEEP TAPES - hypnosis tapes used to induce trance and strengthen post hypnotic retention.
• SOMNAMBULISTIC STATE - a state of the most profound relaxation and usually the hypnotist's objective with subject. (SleepWalking State).
• SUBCONSCIOUS - the nature of mental operation not yet present in the consciousness.
• SUBCONSCIOUS CONTROL - automatic suggestion.
• SUBJECT - one who is experimented with or tested.
• SUGGESTION - an idea which is offered to the subject for uncritical acceptance.
• SUGGESTIVE THERAPY - the removal of symptoms by hypnotic suggestion.
• SUSCEPTIBILITY - capability of receiving impressions; sensibility.
• SYMPTOM REMOVAL - removal of pain that denotes a condition.
• THERAPEUTIC - of or pertaining to the healing arts; curative.
• TIME DISTORTION - unexplainable lapse of time during the hypnotic state by the subject.
• TRANCE - a state of profound abstraction.
• TRANCE DURATION - time spent in the hypnotic state.
• TRANCE MEDIUM - the use of a hypnotized subject to foresee the future.
• TRANSFERENCE - the self-made science of Prof. J.M. Charcot.
• TRAUMA - injury; shock or the resulting condition.
• TWILIGHT SLEEP - the state between consciousness and natural sleep.
• UNCONDITIONED SUBJECT - a person who has never been approached with the hypnotic process.
• VASOMOTOR - physical activity over which the subject has no control.
• WAKING HYPNOSIS - hypnotic suggestions accepted by the subject in the waking state.
• WILL - a thought conveyed by the subconscious which becomes a reality. (Will Power)
• WORD ASSOCIATION - mental reaction to word stimuli.