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hypnotic suggestion

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suggestion /sug·ges·tion/ (sug-jes´chun)
1. the act of offering an idea for action or for consideration of action.
2. an idea so offered.
3. in psychiatry, the process of causing uncritical acceptance of an idea.

hypnotic suggestion  one imparted to a person in the hypnotic state, by which he is induced to alter perceptions or memory or to perform actions.
posthypnotic suggestion  implantation in the mind of a subject during hypnosis of a suggestion to be acted upon after recovery from the hypnotic state.

hypnotic suggestion
Etymology: Gk, hypnos, sleep; L, suggerere, to suggest
a suggestion implanted in the mind of a person under hypnosis.

hypnotic suggestion
Psychiatry The modification of unconscious thought through hypnosis, which may be useful for specific/simple phobias, but rarely for agoraphobia, social phobia, or anxiety and panic disorders. See Hypnosis.


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Paraliminal hypnotic suggestion has come a long way in the past twenty years.
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