Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Hypnotic Susceptibility, James Esdaile, Suggestibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Hypnosis is a therapeutic technique in which clinician make suggestions to individuals who have undergone a procedure designed to relax them and focus their minds. Hypnotic induction is a process that creates a context for hypnosis ex asking the subject to relax, and suggest that the subject"s eyes are becoming heavy and tired. **the goal is to relax the subject and increase their concentration procedures used in this are similar to meditation. People cannot be hypnotized against their will, and even when people want to be hypnotized, they differ in how susceptible they are to hypnotic suggestion. Hypnotic susceptibility scales contain standard series of pass/fail suggestions that are read to a subject after a hypnotic induction score is based on number of passes. However, in an experiment by ikemi and nakagawa, they found that there are striking physiological effects under hypnosis reaction to a toxic leaf could be avoided, and an allergic reaction to a harmless leaf could be produced.