Hypnosis A Guide for Patients and Practitioners 1st Edition by David Waxman 9781317661382 1317661389

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• Author: David Waxman

Hypnosis (Psychology Revivals)
A Guide for Patients and Practitioners

Table contents:

1 What Hypnosis Was
The Birth of a Theory
Animal Magnetism
Lucid Sleep
Hypnos or Nervous Sleep
De la suggestion
An Hysteria
A Dissociation
A Loving Relationship
A Child-parent Relationship
A Conditioned Response
Some Contemporary Theories of Hypnosis
A Goal-directed Striving
The Atavistic Theory
Theories of Role Playing
A Goal-directed Fantasy
Other Speculations as to the Nature of Hypnosis
2 What Hypnosis Is
Hypnosis and Sleep
The Electroencephalogram
Hypnosis and the Waking State
The Brain, Sensation and Response
Experimental Evidence of Some Brain Functions
So What is Hypnosis?
A Definition
3 What Hypnosis Does
The Psychodynamic Approach
Regression
Transference
Dream Interpretation
Free Association
The Behavioural Method
Desensitization
Hypno-aversion
Retrospective Counter-conditioning
Reinforcing Techniques
Self-hypnosis
Ego-assertive Retraining
1. Ego-strengthening
2. Assertive retraining
Summary of Treatment Methods
4 What Hypnosis Begins
A Lesson in History
It’s All in the Mind
So How Does Hypnosis Begin?
Some Tests of Hypnotizability
The Hull Body-sway Test
The Postural Sway Test
The Hand-clasp Test
The Hand Levitation Test
A Real Person
Resistance
Rapport and the Transference
5 How to Use Hypnosis
The Induction of the Hypnotic State
Permissive Techniques
1 Eye fixation with progressive relaxation
2 Thumbnail technique
Intermediate Techniques
1 Erickson’s arm levitation method
2 Eye fixation with distraction
Authoritarian Techniques
1 The direct gaze method
2 A confusional technique
Children and Hypnosis
1 Picture visualization
2 Thumbnail technique—a modification
Deepening of the Hypnotic State
Hypnosis at a Signal
Stages of Hypnosis
Hypnoidal State
Light Trance
Medium Trance
Deep Trance
Somnambulistic State
Proof of Hypnosis
1. Post-hypnotic suggestion
2. Eyelid catalepsy
Awakening
6 When to Use Hypnosis
The Neuroses
Anxiety
Psychosomatic Illness
1 The central nervous system
2 The cardio-vascular system
3 The respiratory system
4 The gastro-intestinal system
5 The urinary system
6 The skin
7 The musculo-skeletal system
Phobias
Obsessional Illness
Hysterical Neuroses
The Fugue State
Problems of Personality
The Social Disabilities
1 Stammering
2 Blushing
3 Nail biting
4 Nervous ‘tics’
The Addictions
1 Nicotinism
2 Alcoholism
3 Other drugs
Gambling
Eating and Weight Problems
1 Obesity
2 Anorexia
Immature personalities
Psychosexual Problems
1. Impotence
2. Frigidity
3. The sexual variations
Reactive Depression
7 Other Uses of Hypnosis
Dentistry
The Reduction of General Anxiety
Needle Phobia
Analgesia
Gagging
Tooth Grinding
Excessive Salivation
Excessive Bleeding
Gynaecology (diseases of women)
Obstetrics (pregnancy, labour and childbirth)
Pain Relief
Sleep Difficulties
Hypnosis and Crime Detection
8 Hypnosis and the Law
How the Law Stands
The Dangers of Misuse
The Dangers of Abuse

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