| HYPNOTHERAPY GLOSSARY OF TERMS |
Abreaction - the release of emotionally charged material from the emotional process.
Catharsis - an explosive release of repressed emotions that has therapeutic effect.
Affect - an emotion, feeling, or desire.
Affective Mood Disorders - their primary characterization is a disturbance of mood, characterized by two emotional
extremes:
1. Energy of mania
2. Despair or lethargy of depression, or both.
Age Regression - the lowering the of hypnotic subject's age level while in hypnotic trance state.
Amnesia - the loss of memory and may be spontaneous or induced by suggestion: frequently occurs under hypnosis.
Anaesthesia - Insensibility to feelings or pain; the absence of sensation, artificially induced insensitivity to pain,
achieved by the administration of gases, injection drugs, or by hypnosis.
Analgesic - Pain reliever.
Anatomy of the Nervous System:
1. Central Nervous System, or CNS - spinal cord and brain.
2. Peripheral Nervous System, or PNS - somatic and autonomic systems.
Analyze - the study the factors of a situation in detail in order to determine a solution or outcome.
Animosity - resentment tending toward hostile action.
Anxiety - a nervous "disorder" characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness; and emotional state similar to fear.
Auto-conditioning - a series of experiments designed for brining one's subconscious under control.
Auto-hypnosis - self hypnosis.
Autonomic Nervous System or ANS - a part of the nervous system that controls internal organs, usually not under
voluntary control.
Auto-suggestion - self induced or subconscious suggestion affecting reaction, behavior, etc.
Bi-polar "Disorder" - manic depressive psychosis; and affective disorder in which an individuals swings from one
emotional extreme to another, experiencing both manic and depressive episodes. There may be a time lapse between
either type of episode.
Blind Spot - an area in which a person lacks understanding or impartiality.
Catalepsy - state of trance or seizure with loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by rigidity of the body.
Cataleptic Rigidity is #10 on the 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.
Conditioned Reflex - learned response to a specific stimulus. May be positive or negative in nature.
Conditioned Subject - a person whom has been initiated into hypnotic induction.
Conscious - awake and aware of one's surrounding and identity.
Conscious Auto-suggestion - consciously giving suggestions to the subconscious through the act of self-hypnosis.
Conscious Distortion - responses to the senses lessened in degree by interfering during consciousness.
Conscious Recall - memory retrieval.
Counter-regression - the process of "waking" from hypnosis from a regressed to normal state.
Counter-suggestion - a suggestion made to counter the effect of suggestions given to induce hypnosis.
Conversion Disorders - conditions in which there are physical symptoms that seemingly have no physical basis.
They instead appear to be linked to psychological factors and are often believed to serve as reducing anxiety.
Defense Mechanism - a mode of behavior or a belief (often unconsciously) for purposes of concealing truth
pertaining to the Self. These include displacement, projection, rationalization, repression and reaction formation.
Depression - a state of deep and pervasive dejection and hopelessness.
Displacement in Psychoanalytic Theory - unconscious transfer of strong, unacceptable emotions from one subject to
another.
Dissociation - impairment in one function, but relatively unaffected in another. Dissociative disorders include
amnesia, identity disorder (multiple personality) and fugue states.
Drug Hypnosis/Narcohypnosis - sleep induced by narcotics, aided by hypnotic suggestion.
Effect - created condition with hypnotic suggestion.
Emotional Outlet - habit pattern formed to release emotional tension.
Fascination Point - the object upon which one fixes gaze during hypnotic induction.
Flaccidity - absence of muscle tone seen in individuals relaxed by hypnosis.
Fractionation - an effective means of inducing trance depth; procedure in which the same subject is hypnotized and
woken a number of times during the same session.
Free Association - spontaneous, unrestricted associations of loosely linked ideas or mental images having very little
sequence or continuity.
Glove Anesthesia - loss of sensation in an area corresponding to that covered by a glove.
Hetero-suggestion - sleep suggestions directed at a person in the hypnotic state.
Hypnoanalysis- hypnosis utilizing psychoanalytic techniques (referred to today as Analytical Hypnotherapy).
Analytical Hypnotherapy vs. Hypnosis:
1. In hypnosis, direct suggestion is a one-way communication from hypnotherapist to hypnotic subject.
2. In analytical hypnotherapy, two-way communication is an essential part.
Hypnosis - an education and communication process to a person's mind that allows the conscious and subconscious
to believe the same message. During hypnosis, the body and conscious mind are in a relaxed, neutral state, while the
subconscious remains awake and receptive to suggestions; a temporary trance-like state that can be induced in a
person with normal brain function.
Hypnotherapy - therapeutic hypnosis.
Hypnotist - the operator;Analytical Hypnotherapist - uses hypnosis to uncover the source of emotional illness by
locating memories of experiences responsible for faulty and damaging behavior patterns.
Hypnotize - to induce hypnotic sleep.
Ideomotor Activity - involuntary movement as the direct expression of an idea.
Instant Sleep Suggestion - a method of inducing sleep automatically in post-hypnotic control.
Kinesthetic Delusions - total anesthesia.
Lay Hypnotist - non-medical practitioner of hypnosis.
Lethargic Sleep - first/light trance state characterized by little to no hypnotic control.
Lethargy - a condition of drowsiness or stupor.
Mania - hyperactive state with marked impairment of judgement, usually accompanied by intense euphoria.
Mass Hypnosis - simultaneous trance induction of a group of people.
Mechanical Device - an object such as a hypno-disc, used to induce the hypnotic trance.
Metronome - a device marking time at a selected rate by giving a regular tick.
Mother Hypnosis - soft lulling tones used to induce hypnosis.
Motivation - the force which determines patterns of behavior.
Motor Activity Reflex - a stimulus excites a sense organ; sense organ transmits stimulus upward to the spinal cord or
brain; brain or spinal cord relays the excitation downward to a muscle; muscle produces motor activity.
Nervous Sleep - the hypnotic state where conscious is inactive, while subconscious is alert and suggestible.
Normal Sleep - the state wherein conscious sleeps normally.
Obejctivity - ability to view events and phenomena as external and apart from self-consciousness; detached and
impersonal.
Pain - mental suffering or distress.
Panacea - universal remedy (Greek panakis).
Personality Types: Type A - extreme impatience, competitiveness, and fierce aggressiveness when opposed; Type B
- more easygoing, less hurried, less competitive and friendlier.
Phobia - one of the anxiety disorders which is characterized by an intense and irrational fear.
Post-hypnotic Suggestion - suggestion made during and after the hypnotic trance to be carried out after awakening.
Post-trance Condition - state in which a hypnotic subject maintains consciously a certain degree of susceptibility.
Prehypnotic Tests - tests based on reflexes accompanied by suggestions to create certain effects.
Professional Hypnotist - one who makes a living applying principles of hypnotism.
Psychoanalysis - a method of evaluation persistent subconscious ideas.
Psychosomatic - functional interrelationship between mind and body.
Rationalization - to evaluate with adequate analysis.
Reincarnation - the belief in successive returns to physical life.
Catharsis - an explosive release of repressed emotions that has therapeutic effect.
Affect - an emotion, feeling, or desire.
Affective Mood Disorders - their primary characterization is a disturbance of mood, characterized by two emotional
extremes:
1. Energy of mania
2. Despair or lethargy of depression, or both.
Age Regression - the lowering the of hypnotic subject's age level while in hypnotic trance state.
Amnesia - the loss of memory and may be spontaneous or induced by suggestion: frequently occurs under hypnosis.
Anaesthesia - Insensibility to feelings or pain; the absence of sensation, artificially induced insensitivity to pain,
achieved by the administration of gases, injection drugs, or by hypnosis.
Analgesic - Pain reliever.
Anatomy of the Nervous System:
1. Central Nervous System, or CNS - spinal cord and brain.
2. Peripheral Nervous System, or PNS - somatic and autonomic systems.
Analyze - the study the factors of a situation in detail in order to determine a solution or outcome.
Animosity - resentment tending toward hostile action.
Anxiety - a nervous "disorder" characterized by a state of excessive uneasiness; and emotional state similar to fear.
Auto-conditioning - a series of experiments designed for brining one's subconscious under control.
Auto-hypnosis - self hypnosis.
Autonomic Nervous System or ANS - a part of the nervous system that controls internal organs, usually not under
voluntary control.
Auto-suggestion - self induced or subconscious suggestion affecting reaction, behavior, etc.
Bi-polar "Disorder" - manic depressive psychosis; and affective disorder in which an individuals swings from one
emotional extreme to another, experiencing both manic and depressive episodes. There may be a time lapse between
either type of episode.
Blind Spot - an area in which a person lacks understanding or impartiality.
Catalepsy - state of trance or seizure with loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by rigidity of the body.
Cataleptic Rigidity is #10 on the 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.
Conditioned Reflex - learned response to a specific stimulus. May be positive or negative in nature.
Conditioned Subject - a person whom has been initiated into hypnotic induction.
Conscious - awake and aware of one's surrounding and identity.
Conscious Auto-suggestion - consciously giving suggestions to the subconscious through the act of self-hypnosis.
Conscious Distortion - responses to the senses lessened in degree by interfering during consciousness.
Conscious Recall - memory retrieval.
Counter-regression - the process of "waking" from hypnosis from a regressed to normal state.
Counter-suggestion - a suggestion made to counter the effect of suggestions given to induce hypnosis.
Conversion Disorders - conditions in which there are physical symptoms that seemingly have no physical basis.
They instead appear to be linked to psychological factors and are often believed to serve as reducing anxiety.
Defense Mechanism - a mode of behavior or a belief (often unconsciously) for purposes of concealing truth
pertaining to the Self. These include displacement, projection, rationalization, repression and reaction formation.
Depression - a state of deep and pervasive dejection and hopelessness.
Displacement in Psychoanalytic Theory - unconscious transfer of strong, unacceptable emotions from one subject to
another.
Dissociation - impairment in one function, but relatively unaffected in another. Dissociative disorders include
amnesia, identity disorder (multiple personality) and fugue states.
Drug Hypnosis/Narcohypnosis - sleep induced by narcotics, aided by hypnotic suggestion.
Effect - created condition with hypnotic suggestion.
Emotional Outlet - habit pattern formed to release emotional tension.
Fascination Point - the object upon which one fixes gaze during hypnotic induction.
Flaccidity - absence of muscle tone seen in individuals relaxed by hypnosis.
Fractionation - an effective means of inducing trance depth; procedure in which the same subject is hypnotized and
woken a number of times during the same session.
Free Association - spontaneous, unrestricted associations of loosely linked ideas or mental images having very little
sequence or continuity.
Glove Anesthesia - loss of sensation in an area corresponding to that covered by a glove.
Hetero-suggestion - sleep suggestions directed at a person in the hypnotic state.
Hypnoanalysis- hypnosis utilizing psychoanalytic techniques (referred to today as Analytical Hypnotherapy).
Analytical Hypnotherapy vs. Hypnosis:
1. In hypnosis, direct suggestion is a one-way communication from hypnotherapist to hypnotic subject.
2. In analytical hypnotherapy, two-way communication is an essential part.
Hypnosis - an education and communication process to a person's mind that allows the conscious and subconscious
to believe the same message. During hypnosis, the body and conscious mind are in a relaxed, neutral state, while the
subconscious remains awake and receptive to suggestions; a temporary trance-like state that can be induced in a
person with normal brain function.
Hypnotherapy - therapeutic hypnosis.
Hypnotist - the operator;Analytical Hypnotherapist - uses hypnosis to uncover the source of emotional illness by
locating memories of experiences responsible for faulty and damaging behavior patterns.
Hypnotize - to induce hypnotic sleep.
Ideomotor Activity - involuntary movement as the direct expression of an idea.
Instant Sleep Suggestion - a method of inducing sleep automatically in post-hypnotic control.
Kinesthetic Delusions - total anesthesia.
Lay Hypnotist - non-medical practitioner of hypnosis.
Lethargic Sleep - first/light trance state characterized by little to no hypnotic control.
Lethargy - a condition of drowsiness or stupor.
Mania - hyperactive state with marked impairment of judgement, usually accompanied by intense euphoria.
Mass Hypnosis - simultaneous trance induction of a group of people.
Mechanical Device - an object such as a hypno-disc, used to induce the hypnotic trance.
Metronome - a device marking time at a selected rate by giving a regular tick.
Mother Hypnosis - soft lulling tones used to induce hypnosis.
Motivation - the force which determines patterns of behavior.
Motor Activity Reflex - a stimulus excites a sense organ; sense organ transmits stimulus upward to the spinal cord or
brain; brain or spinal cord relays the excitation downward to a muscle; muscle produces motor activity.
Nervous Sleep - the hypnotic state where conscious is inactive, while subconscious is alert and suggestible.
Normal Sleep - the state wherein conscious sleeps normally.
Obejctivity - ability to view events and phenomena as external and apart from self-consciousness; detached and
impersonal.
Pain - mental suffering or distress.
Panacea - universal remedy (Greek panakis).
Personality Types: Type A - extreme impatience, competitiveness, and fierce aggressiveness when opposed; Type B
- more easygoing, less hurried, less competitive and friendlier.
Phobia - one of the anxiety disorders which is characterized by an intense and irrational fear.
Post-hypnotic Suggestion - suggestion made during and after the hypnotic trance to be carried out after awakening.
Post-trance Condition - state in which a hypnotic subject maintains consciously a certain degree of susceptibility.
Prehypnotic Tests - tests based on reflexes accompanied by suggestions to create certain effects.
Professional Hypnotist - one who makes a living applying principles of hypnotism.
Psychoanalysis - a method of evaluation persistent subconscious ideas.
Psychosomatic - functional interrelationship between mind and body.
Rationalization - to evaluate with adequate analysis.
Reincarnation - the belief in successive returns to physical life.
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