1. Hypnosis Nikki Ballentine South Puget Sound Community College Personality Theories June 7, 2010

2. Above is a stage hypnosis show that will play automatically. A little idea of what hypnosis can do. Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaJG4BPNa3g

4. The person is fully aware and alert, but in a state of relaxation so intense that is allows for complete and utter focus on whatever the hypnotist is saying.

6. Psychoanalytical Approach Freud believes that people have no immediate access to the unconscious mind and that unconscious thoughts cannot be brought into the conscious mind Freud explains hypnosis: “the ego was somehow put into a suspended state during a deep hypnotic trance, which allowed the hypnotist to bypass the ego and get directly to the unconscious material.” Hypnosis is believed to put the conscious mind to rest while allowing the unconscious mind to prevail on its own. the subject still is aware and in control although the ego, being the most conscious state of mind, is not in control.

8. When in a hypnotic trance, the unconscious mind is no longer being controlled by the conscious, making suggestions easier received“The subconscious mind doesn't analyze, it simply takes in suggestions and plays them back…any behavior that is learned can be unlearned” Trait Approach

10. When a person is in a hypnotic trance and susceptible to pain or suggestions, brain activity increases proving that the activity is not fake as is it showing true effects on the subjects brain. “Hypnotic trance has special qualities as a distinctive state of awareness with the patterns of brain activities characteristic only for the hypnotic trance, setting it aside from the waking state, relaxation, sleep and even meditation.”

16. Hypnosis revolves around suggestion, which can be understood through the basic cognitive principles

17. Cognitive theory proposes that the suggestions being presented in hypnosis relates to the way people process information, in that the conscious mind is no longer in control and unable to clearly process and analyze what is being said and done.

18. However, people react differently to hypnosis as some people do cannot be hypnotized at all. “We begin by outlining a heuristic model of perception, attention, control and awareness information by contemporary cognitive theory; we then consider how it can account for the phenomenon of suggestion, hypnosis and hypnotizability”

20. I learned, as was relieved to discover that during hypnosis the person is still in complete control over their actions and are aware of what is going on. Basically just so drowned in their state of mind that they are oblivious to everything around them.

21. Prior to this research I had no Idea hypnosis had anything to do with consciousness or unconsciousness and I am amazed to learn at what our minds are capable of.

22. The approach that I found to be the best match for discussing hypnosis was psychoanalytical theory.

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