PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Obscurantism, Psy, Mass Hysteria

• School: Eastern Oregon University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 453
• Professor: Dr. Charles Lyons

Document Summary

Hypnosis is much more than what you can see. As such, hypnosis emerges as a therapeutic tool in its beginnings . There is evidence that already in prehistoric times, the figure of the shaman existed , who used suggestive techniques for healing. Later it was passed to the sorcerers and the mediums , and the obscurantism was growing. However, the scientific rigor or at least the consideration of hypnosis as more than witchcraft began at the school of the nancy-salpetriere psychiatric hospital, with professor. Charcot and the treatment of collective hysteria by hypnosis. Today hypnosis could be defined as a method. A procedure made up of various techniques that use the attention or imagination of the individual to produce alterations or changes in their emotions , thoughts, behaviors or perceptions. This way of using attention necessarily goes through a state called a trance state . It is a state very similar to the flow state of the artists.