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- From: twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin)
- Subject: Re: Hypnosis and Repression (was Ritual Abuse Taskforce....)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.014837.19102@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 01:48:37 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec15.000907.11845@netcom.com> sheaffer@netcom.com (Robert Sheaffer) writes:
- >In article <2933430839.2.p00168@psilink.com> p00168@psilink.com (James F. Tims) writes:
- >>
- >>The (Great, Amazing, Fantastic?) Kreskin once claimed that hypnosis
- > ^^^^^^^
- >>doesn't even exist. Does Dr. Baker reach a similar conclusion?
- >>
- >
- > Yes; more precisely, that hypnosis is *not* a unique mental state,
- > but more an excercise in "social compliance".
-
-
- I'd provisionally agree that hypnosis is not a *unique* mental state,
- being very close in my experience to lucid dreaming. I've experienced
- hypnosis once, and though sceptical, even hilarious about it at the time,
- realized even when I was in a light hypnotic state that I was indeed in a
- trance. It has nothing to do with "social compliance" as I understand it.
-
- It was because of this convincing experience of hypnosis that I hired
- a hypnotist to help my 80-year-old mother deal with her excruciating
- pain when she was dying of cancer. It worked. And I'll be happy to
- explain to anyone exactly how I knew it worked if you want to contact
- me via e-mail.
-
- I found the hypnotist through the national association that corresponds
- to the AMA. He was a Congregationalist minister who discovered a
- talent for using hypnotism when he helped his 18-year-old daughter
- through her death from a brain tumor. He had then for the past 20
- years worked with the local VA hospital with patients either terminally
- ill or those who experienced chronic pain.
-
- Several hypnotists I contacted said they would not work with the
- dying because these people were beyond consciously dealing with
- suggestion..
-
- Hypnotism is an effective means of dealing with certain conditions,
- and has absolutely nothing to do with moronic credulism or an
- eagerness to be "socially compliant."
-
- --Barbara
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