hypnosis (redirected from animal hypnosis)

hypnosis /hyp·no·sis/ (hip-no´sis) an altered state of consciousness characterized by focusing of attention, suspension of disbelief, increased amenability and responsiveness to suggestions and commands, and the subjective experience of responding involuntarily.

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hyp·no·sis (hp-nss)

n. pl. hyp·no·ses (-sz)

1. A trancelike state resembling somnambulism, usually induced by another person, in which the subject may experience forgotten or suppressed memories, hallucinations, and heightened suggestibility.

2. A sleeplike state or condition.

3. Hypnotism.

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Hypnosis

The means by which a state of extreme relaxation and suggestibility is induced: used to treat amnesia and identity disturbances that occur in dissociative disorders.

Mentioned in: Bed-Wetting, Dissociative Disorders, Multiple Personality Disorder

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hypnosis [hip-no´sis]

1. a state of altered consciousness, usually artificially induced, in which there is a focusing of attention and heightened responsiveness to suggestions and commands. Contrary to popular belief, hypnosis is not sleep but rather intense concentration, something like the familiar experience of being engrossed in a book to the extent of shutting out the outside world.

State of Hypnosis. The nature of hypnosis and the way it works are still largely unknown. One widely accepted theory is that the person's ego—that is, the part of the mind that consciously restrains instincts—is temporarily weakened under hypnosis at the person's own wish. How deeply one responds depends on many psychologic and biologic factors. The ability to respond to hypnosis varies from person to person; it tends to increase after successive experiences.

Use of Hypnosis. A common medical use of hypnosis is in treating mental illness. Historically, Sigmund Freud developed his theory of the unconscious as a result of his experiments with a hypnotized patient. Out of this theory came some of the techniques of psychoanalysis. By lessening the mind's unconscious defenses, hypnosis can make some patients able to recall and even reexperience important childhood events that have long been forgotten or repressed by the conscious mind.

In certain cases when the use of anesthetics is not advisable, hypnosis has been used successfully during dental treatment, setting of fractures, and childbirth, usually in addition to pain-killing medicines.

2. in the nursing interventions classification, a nursing intervention defined as assisting a patient to induce an altered state of consciousness to create an accurate awareness and a directed focus experience.

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hypnosis,

n an altered state of consciousness, usually resembling sleep or trance, which may use relaxation techniques, suggestion, and imagery.

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hypnosis (hipnō´sis),

n a condition of artificially induced sleep or of a trance resembling sleep induced by drugs, psychologic means, or both. Generally creating a condition of heightened suggestibility in the subject.

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hypnosis

an artificially induced state of passivity. In animals an immobility reflex can be induced with varying ease in the different species. It has some similarity to the hypnotic state in humans.

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animal hypnosis

can be induced by dopamine-receptor blockers or by restraint or visual fixation; guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens are most susceptible.

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hypnosis

Psychiatry A technique involving relaxation and voluntarily ignoring conscious thought processes; hypnosis attempts to access the unconscious mind. See Highway hypnosis PsychologyA technique that may be effective in behavior modification–eg, control of habits, relaxation, and biofeedback, in which a person learns to focus attention on thoughts or images unrelated to a particular stimulus–eg, cancer-related pain.

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Patient discussion about hypnosis.

Q. How effective is hypnosis in treating alcoholism? And how expensive is it? I've already tried hypnotherapy for social anxiety problems but the guy was a useless quack and I didn't even go under properly.

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Q. HYPNOSIS can hypnosis be used in bi-polar disorder?

A. there is no reason why not. people with bipolar disorder can be susceptible to hypnosis like any others. but like all population the ability to be hypnotized is variable. some are very suggestible and some are not. doesn't say anything on the person- very smart and intelligent people can be hypnotized.