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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"hypnotism"”.
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Concerns of The Self 1800/1900: Freud and The Making of Modern Subjectivity
… examine practices and techniques employed within hypnotism and experimental psychology, in addition to literary discourses on self-representation in 19th century autobiography. As a scientific treatise, a technical manual and a quasi- autobiographical text, Interpretation borrows from each of …
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Fear of hypnosis: the role of labeling in patients' acceptance of behavioral interventions
Although increasing numbers of physicians, dentists, and health-care professionals employ hypnosis and relaxation techniques to control pain and reduce anxiety, clinicians have reported that many lay people are reluctant to engage in such procedures (Redd, Rosenberger, & Hendler, 1982). This …
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Resolving conflict in hypnosis
This thesis investigated the management of conflict between reality and suggestion during hypnosis. The eight experiments conducted for this thesis investigated the social, motivational, and cognitive factors that mediate participants? response to conflict during a negative visual hallucination. …
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Top-down Modulation of the Chromatic VEP with Hypnotic Suggestion
AbstractVisual perception is composed of both bottom-up (stimulus driven) and top-down (feedback) processes. It has been demonstrated that directed spatial attention enhances processing of attended stimuli, inhibits non-attended stimuli, and increases baseline activity in portions of cortex …