0 a mental state like sleep, in which a person's thoughts can be easily influenced by someone else:
Under deep hypnosis she remembered the traumatic events of that night.
1 an artificially produced state of mind similar to sleep in which a person can be influenced to say or do things
Hypnosis does seem to be a useful option, as patients reported an average of 36% reduction in pain scores after their session.
Those with poor outcome accounted for 57.7% of the sample whereas the remaining 42.4% were rated as having a good outcome with hypnosis.
No hypnosis control group was included in our study and hypnotic induction of ' blindness ' has not, to our knowledge, been reported.
It is a condition close to hypnosis, perhaps - almost magical.
Systematic searching and appraisal has demonstrated that hypnosis has potential as a clinically valuable intervention for procedure-related pain and distress in pediatric cancer patients.
Rather, they typically experience the phenomena of hypnosis as happening by themselves.
Each patient provided baseline data and received four weekly sessions of hypnosis that followed a standardized transcript.
Finally, perhaps the most enduring legacy of the memory-film association was the practice of forensic hypnosis.
