acting as if you are hypnotized
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Acting As If You Are Hypnotized . By: Lindsey Peck and Colleen Ahearn. Background. Common belief that hypnotized was a separate/unique state of awareness Mesmerize acquired from Mesmer created first example of hypnosis Used by Freud in psychoanalytic techniques - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Acting As If You Are Hypnotized By: Lindsey Peck and Colleen Ahearn
BackgroundCommon belief that hypnotized was a separate/unique state of awareness
Mesmerize acquired from Mesmer created first example of hypnosis
Used by Freud in psychoanalytic techniques
Ernest Hilgard – 6 descriptions of hypnosis
Nicholas Spanos – does NOT involve alternate state of consciousness
MethodFindings taken from 16 studies
Involved in all experiments
Purpose to contradict Hilgard and popular belief that hypnosis is a unique state of consciousness
Findings and Conclusions
Behavior is involuntary
Suggestion vs. instruction
Raising arm vs. lowering arm
People become absorbed in these imaginary strategies and convince themselves behavior is involuntary
Findings and Conclusions
Creation of expectations
3 main studies1. Difference in lectures2. Comparing experiences with vivid imagery 3. Altering amount of information given about experiment
Significance Not denying the actual existence of hypnosis
Hypnosis not an altered state of consciousness but result of motivated, goal-directed, social behavior
Hypnosis still exists because people need to believe in a last resort problem solver
Changed psychology with an alternative experimentally based explanation for hypnosis behavior
Recent Applications and Alternative Theories
Article in 1997, mirroring Spanos theory and supporting it
In 2003, Lynn completed a study of hypnosis as a therapeutic practice to recover repressed memories from childhood is faulty
Although he dies in a plane crash in 1994 his research has carried on
Many articles later (1993, 1998, 1999, 2000) on refuting Spanos’ theory and supporting Hilgard’s
Now It’s Your Turn