(1) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(2) Flexibility and integration of approaches may be advantageous and hypnosis, including regression and reframing, may be especially powerful in the treatment of phobics.
(3) Various feedback techniques have been reported of value, but their superiority to suggestion and hypnosis is still problematic.
(4) Treatment consisted of the induction of hypnosis, followed by guided imagery focused on the physical and functional attributes of stimulus objects.
(5) Turing to hypnosis, it is made clear that a trance is the execution of a momentarily proposed programme; it is not the result of a generalised mechanical action, but is preordained and geared to various situations.
(6) After this 6-month period, each child was taught self-hypnosis and used it for 3 months.
(7) Hypnosis can effectively reduce a child's anxiety and symptoms and has few side effects when used competently.
(8) Finally, subjects led to believe that hypnosis is an altered state of consciousness were less aware of external events, and had the lowest rate of recall of target suggestions compared with subjects in the comparison groups.
(9) A rationale for the use of hypnosis in this case is presented.
(10) In this chapter the author describes some of the opportunities for using hypnosis according to the site of practice, rather than in the usual pattern of describing its use in each physiological system (e.g.
(11) An attempt was made to construct and validate a questionnaire measure of hypnotic-like experiences based on Shor's (1979) 8-dimension phenomenological analysis of hypnosis.
(12) It may be hypothesized that patients with a tendency for external attribution and high hypnotizability are specifically at risk for this kind of abuse when hypnosis is used in the context of a therapeutic relationship.
(13) Something certainly shifted: perhaps it was a combination of Dave’s reassurance, the hypnosis and seeing my fellow phobics so bravely facing their fears that eventually had an effect.
(14) Acceptance of hypnosis as a legitimate tool in health care delivery requires careful adherence to appropriate ethical principles.
(15) Trance logic results from the "metasuggestion," experienced through participation in a formal induction procedure, that hypnosis entails new rules of experience and behavior.
(16) The Digo healer applies hypnosis, somatiic exercises, stimulating music, and drugs in his three-day ritual performed mainly for psychosomatic and chronic illness.
(17) The problem of denying defendants their constitutional rights was the reason we have argued that defendants' hypnotically refreshed testimony should generally be permitted, whereas the unreliability of hypnotically elicited memories and the manner in which hypnosis diminishes the effectiveness of cross-examination make the general exclusion of testimony from hypnotized witnesses essential (M. T. Orne, 1982).
(18) In this way, hypnosis can be used to provide controlled access to memories that are then placed into a broader perspective.
(19) Cold pressor stimulation consisted of forearm immersion in a circulating water bath maintained at 0-1 degrees C. Subjects made threshold determinations of pain and tolerance and used Visual Analogue Scales to rate the strength and the unpleasantness of both noxious stimuli before and after receiving either hypnosis- or relaxation-induced analgesia.
(20) In hypnotic test all the compounds potentiated pentobarbitone-induced hypnosis.
Narcosis
Definition:
(n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) In contrast, the same concentration of isopropanol produced narcosis in the dams, retarded body-weight gain and reduced the feed intake.
(2) The time of ethanol-induced narcosis and the extent of ethanol-induced hypothermia were not affected.
(3) The changes attributable to premedication and narcosis were characterized by a primary fibrinolysis which was accompanied by a slight hypercoagulability.
(4) If no progress can be achieved, narcosis mobilization and brisement modéré should be done.
(5) Monomodal neurons had more often simple RF and invariance of OT to narcosis.
(6) Narcosis (pentobarbital) inhibited markedly the resting and stimulated enzyme secretion.
(7) The indices of renal functionality are studied during the course of ether anesthesia in order to ascertain the behaviour of the kidney subjected to narcosis with this drug.
(8) In this particular case, the narcosis has permitted the uncovering of delusions and consequently the administration of the appropriate treatment.
(9) The concept of a critical-volume fraction of anesthetic being necessary for narcosis was discussed in most detail by Mullins.
(10) The antagonism of narcosis or sedation was evident against other barbiturates, diazepam, chlorpromazine, and reserpine, but not against morphine.
(11) Pressor responses were usually obtained in conscious cats, and also narcosis produced reversal effect on rare occasions.
(12) In addition, H2-receptor blocking agents such as cimetidine, ranitidine and famotidine clearly antagonized Hi-induced prolongation of thiopental narcosis, while pyrilamine and chlorpheniramine had no effect.
(13) For acute narcosis (50% mortality) the toxicant level in the hydrophobic (lipid) phase of an exposed organism is, as a first approximation, constant at approximately 50 mmol l-1 of lipid.
(14) In conclusion, these studies suggest that THF, like other commonly used organic solvents, causes narcosis in rats and mice.
(15) The arterial blood gases and pH remained at the predive control level in group 2 rats, whereas serum corticosterone concentration fell to 60% during compression (P less than 0.01), possibly due to N2 narcosis, but increased gradually toward 80% of C value during the pressure exposure.
(16) Nitrous oxide does not appear to benefit emotional or physiological adaptation to nitrogen narcosis associated with breathing hyperbaric air, and may even impair emotional adaptation, at least under these experimental conditions.
(17) Employment of this drug to prevent bronchospastic crises in 10 asthmatic patients subjected to narcosis is reported.
(18) Under nembutal narcosis on cats, intracellular electrophysiological studies have been made of common properties and differences in the neuronal organization of the nucleus reticularis tegmenti pontis and intrinsic pontine nuclei.
(19) The indications of the method include subdiaphragmatic surgery, interventions on more than one anatomical region, surgery in aging patients, patients with full stomach, and those with anaesthetic and surgical risk, as well as socioeconomic factors which may prevent application of a differentiated and safe narcosis.
(20) Opposing this, the application of neurotensin appears to potentiate ethanol narcosis.