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This glossary contains words that may be
mentioned on this website. It also contains words and phrases not included on
the site but which you may come across elsewhere in connection with hypnosis and
related subject matter.
A
ABREACTION - the act of reviving the memory of a repressed
disagreeable experience and giving expression in speech and
action to the emotions related to it, thereby relieving the
individual of its influence.
AFFECT BRIDGE - a technique by which significant memories
are recovered by inducing an intense emotional state in a
client and asking him or her to remember a past instance
when he or she felt the same way.
AGE PROGRESSION - advancing the subject's age level while in
hypnosis. (future pacing)
AGE REGRESSION - in age regression the subject plays a role
acting out past events in the framework of the present. A
re-experiencing of earlier events in life usually limited to
a specific time or time period.
ANALGESIA - Feeling pressure but no pain, also known as
glove anesthesia.
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.
ANOREXIA NERVOSA - a life-threatening psychoneurotic symptom
in which the client, usually a young woman, diets to the
point of emaciation. As a rule, the anorexic has a loss of
appetite with a loathing for food.
ANXIETY - a painful uneasiness of mind.
AUTHORITATIVE - (parental) forceful, strong, domineering,
direct.
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.
B
BLIND SPOT - an area in one's discernment where one fails to
exercise understanding.
BRAIDISM - those theories advocated by James Braid.
BULIMIA - the bulimic has an insatiable appetite for food.
Bulimia is a psychoneurotic disturbance resulting in a
morbid increase of appetite whereby the individual wishes to
eat constantly.
C
CATALEPSY - a condition characterized by a rigidity of the
skeletal muscles. Maybe accompanied by a waxy flexibility in
which the limbs of a cataleptic individual remains in almost
any position they are placed as though made of molded wax.
The medical term for this phenomena is cerea flexibilities.
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.
CLINICAL HYPNOSIS - the therapeutic use of hypnosis.
COEISM - the principles of autosuggestion as advocated by
Emile Coue. (Every day in every way, I am getting better and
better.)
COMPOUNDING - If one thing that is stated happens then the
next must also be true. Such as “When your finger touches
your nose you will drop in the deepest state of hypnosis.”
Your mind says to itself “I don’t think my finger will touch
my nose… but if it does… then I must fall into a deeper
stage.” You are adding suggestions onto suggestions taking
advantage of the little wins along the way.
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.
CONTENTION - which is attention, with a little
concentration, without effort (effortless concentration)
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.
D
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.
DELUSION - an irrational beliefs tenaciously held in spite
of all evidence to the contrary.
DISSOCIATION - the segregation from consciousness of certain
components of mental processes which function independently.
E
EFFECT - a created condition with hypnotic suggestions.
EMOTIONAL OUTLET - a habit pattern formed to release
emotional tension.
ENDORPHINS - any of several peptides secreted in the brain
that have a pain relieving effect like that of morphine.
These analgesic chemicals are naturally produced by the body
E.S.P. (Extra-Sensory-Perception) - perception which is
mediated by the sense organs.
EXPECTANCY - if you believe in the positive results, you are
in a state of expectancy. It may be a firm belief or a vague
feeling that this thing you want will happen. Your
expectancy that the suggestion will work plays a major role
in goal achievement.
F
FACILITATION - the acceptance of one suggestion always aids
in the acceptance of another. The persuasive salesperson who
forces the prospect to answer many unimportant questions
with “yes” before popping the big one is using facilitation.
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)
FIXATION - also called monodeism. In this stage, the subject
is literally hanging on every word said by the operator.
“Close your eyes and just relax.”
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.) Legal application of
hypnosis.
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.
G
GLOVE ANESTHESIA - a loss of sensation in an area
corresponding to that covered by a glove. Feeling pressure,
but no pain.
GRADING - suggestions are excepted more readily if they are
graded from low to high difficulty. Easy suggestions come
before hard ones. As you develop suggestion skills, increase
the difficulty a little at a time.
H
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.
HYPERESTHESIA - a high degree of sensitivity.
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.
HYPERSUGGESTIBILITY - the capacity to respond to suggestions
above the norm. The subject who is readily influenced and
achieves a profound level of hypnosis is said to be hyper
suggestible
HYPNAGOGIC - the state intermediate between wakefulness and
sleep.
HYPNOANALYSIS - the use of hypnosis in combination with
psychoanalytic techniques.
HYPNOIDAL - resembling hypnosis. When the term hypnoidal is
used in the context of hypnotic susceptibility, it
designates the lightest degree of hypnosis.
HYPNOSIS - (Greek for SLEEP) hypnosis refers to a state or
condition in which the subject becomes highly responsive to
suggestions. The hypnotized individual seems to follow
instructions in an uncritical, automatic fashion and attends
closely only to those aspects of the environment made
relevant by the hypnotist. If the subject is profoundly
responsive, he or she hears, sees, feels, smells, and taste
in accordance with the suggestions given, even though these
may be in direct contradiction to the actual stimuli that
impinge upon the subject. Furthermore, memory and awareness
of self can be altered by suggestions. All of these effects
may be extended post hypnotically into the individuals
subsequent waking activity. It is as if suggestions given
during hypnosis come to define the individuals perception of
the real world. In this sense the phenomenon has been
described as a “believed In fantasy.”
HYPNOTHERAPY - any therapy in which the use of hypnosis
constitutes the core of the treatment.
HYPNOTIC - pertaining to or associated with hypnotism.
HYPNOTISM - the study in use of suggestions. The science of
hypnosis.
HYPNOTIZABILITY - refers to suggestibility or individual
susceptibility to hypnosis.
HYPNOTIC SUCCEPTIBILITY - a personality characteristic that
determines a subjects ability to be hypnotized and to attain
a given depth of hypnosis.
HYSTERIA - highly charged, emotional excitability due to
internal or external stimuli.
I
IDEOMOTOR ACTION - the involuntary capacity of muscles to
respond instantaneously to thoughts, feelings, and ideas.
IDEO-MOTOR RESPONSE - non-voluntary movement produced as the
direct suggestion of an idea.
IDEOSENSORY ACTION - the involuntary capacity of the brain
to evoke sensory images; these may be kinesthetic, auditory,
visual, olfactory, gustatory or tactile.
ILLUSION - a common misperception of some sensory stimulus.
All sensory modalities are subject to illusions.
IMAGERY - the ability to perceive or mentally re-create
ideas, pictures, or feelings.
INDUCTION - the production of hypnosis by the use of
specific procedures.
INDIRECT HYPNOSIS - the production of hypnosis without the
subjects awareness.
L
LAY HYPNOTIST - term applied to anyone practicing hypnosis
outside of the medical profession.
M
MASS HYPNOSIS - induction of a group simultaneously.
MATCHING - developed by the late Milton Erickson, and used
by John Grinder and Richard Bandler in their system all of
neural linguistic programming (NLP). The technique consists
of adopting parts of another person’s behavior, such as
particular gestures, facial expressions, forms of speech,
tone of voice, and so on. Done skillfully, it helps create
rapport.
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.
N
NEGATIVE HALLUCINATION - not seeing something that is there.
Clock on the wall becomes invisible.
O
OBJECTIVITY - ability to view events, ideas and phenomena as
external and apart from self consciousness, detached and
impersonal.
OPERATOR - the hypnotist.
P
PAIN - distressing feeling.
PANACEA - a cure-all.
PASSIVE STATE - this becomes the hypnotic state as soon as
the hypnotist establishes rapport.
PATERNAL APPROACH - direct suggestions; authoritarian
PERMISSIVE - (maternal) soft spoken, nondirective, yet
persuasive.
PHENOMENA - an exceptional, unusual or abnormal thing or
occurrence.
PHOBIA - a morbid fear.
POSITIVE HALLUCINATION - Seeing something that is not there.
A mirage.
POSTHYPNOTIC RESPONSE - acts carried out after the
termination of hypnosis in response to specific suggestions
are called posthypnotic. A suggestion given during hypnosis,
serves as the stimulus in the act becomes the response.
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.
PYRAMIDING OF SUGGESTIONS - facilitation. Each successful
challenge guarantees the success of the next more difficult
challenge from simple test to difficult test.
R
RAPPORT - relation of harmony, comfort and accord; state of
being in tune with your subject.
REALITY - true state of anything.
REVIVIFICATION - a reliving of a prior period of life. In
revivification the hypnotized person, returns to a
psychological state believed to have existed at the time to
which the subject has returned. All memories following the
age to which the subject has been regressed are removed.
RIGIDITY - muscle tenseness.
S
SELF CONTROL - conscious auto-suggestion.
SELF HYPNOSIS - placing one's self into a hypnotic state.
Skeptic - one who doubts or disbelieves.
SLEEP HYPNOSIS - hypnosis brought about while an individual
is sleeping, bringing them out of sleep just enough to be in
the state of between sleep and wakefulness, the state of
suggestibility. Usually conducted on small children with
great success.
SLEEP TAPES - hypnosis tapes used to induce trance and
strengthen post hypnotic retention.
SOMNAMBULISM - in everyday usage the term somnambulism is
used for sleepwalking; however, in the lexicon of hypnosis
somnambulism is used to designate the deepest state of
hypnosis.
SOMNAMBULISTIC STATE - a state of the most profound
relaxation and usually the hypnotist's objective with
subject. (Sleep Walking 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.
SUBJECTIVE TIME - time as perceived by a subject (essays ,
as opposed to real-time).
SUGGESTIBILITY - the capacity to respond to suggestions. The
propensity of a subject to accept an act on suggestions.
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.
T
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 LOGIC - the suspension of critical judgment on the
part of a hypnotized subject and his or her ability to
tolerate the coexistence of logically incompatible
phenomena.
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.
U
UNCONDITIONED SUBJECT - a person who has never been
approached with the hypnotic process.
UNCONSCIOUS MIND - is a term used in psychiatry to denote a
postulated region of the psyche, the repository of repressed
urges and wishes. The term subconscious is often use as a
synonym for the term unconscious.
V
VASOMOTOR - physical activity over which the subject has no
control.
W
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.
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