| Description |
1 online resource (189 pages) |
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Psychology Revivals |
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Psychology revivals.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Preface; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; 1 WHAT HYPNOSIS WAS; The Birth of a Theory; Animal Magnetism; Lucid Sleep; Hynos 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 |
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Hypnosis and SleepThe 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 HOW HYPNOSIS BEGINS; A Lesson in History |
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It's All in the mindSo 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 |
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1. Picture visualization2. 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 |
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Hysterical NeurosesThe 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) |
| Summary |
Hypnosis is now being used by doctors, dentists and therapists to help cure or relieve a wide range of illnesses, personality problems and emotional and psychological conditions. It has been used to treat phobias and many nervous symptoms; the help people give up smoking, alcohol and drugs; to overcome shyness, stammering, uncontrollable blushing, nail biting and certain allergies; to curb weight problems (both obesity and anorexia); to help overcome impotence, frigidity and other sexual difficulties; in dentistry as a substitute to local anaesthetics and to counter 'needle-phobia', |
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Obstetrics (Pregnancy, labour and confinement) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Hypnotism -- Therapeutic use.
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MEDICAL -- Pharmacology.
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Hypnotism -- Therapeutic use
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317661399 |
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1317661397 |
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1322081484 |
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9781322081489 |
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9781138787179 |
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1138787175 |
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9781315766751 |
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1315766752 |
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9781317661382 |
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1317661389 |
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9781317661375 |
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1317661370 |
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