(1) There was a tendency for nonresistors to have a more positive view of the hypnotist but it is not as marked as was found in an earlier study (Levitt & Baker, 1983).
(2) Guided by Vikki, in a voice that was part nursery school teacher, part hypnotist, exercises like “the scan”, where you focus on different parts of your body from the crown of your head to the tops on your toes, left me poleaxed, and a convert to more restorative forms of yoga.
(3) Close cooperation between the patient, hypnotist, anesthesiologist, and surgeon is critical.
(4) It is suggested that hypnosis can be viewed as an 'agentic state' whereby the subject gives up autonomy and relinquishes responsibility for his actions to the hypnotist, whilst remaining responsible to the hypnotist for his performance as an hypnotic subject.
(5) The man ought to be a stage hypnotist: his calm voice never rises beyond a casual tone, always giving practical instruction that seemed so simple, so easy to follow.
(6) The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion, set in 1940s New York, also pivoted creakily around a fake hypnotist, half-cousin to the fortune teller in You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger.
(7) 5 dependent measures: (a) objective scale score; (b) self-report scale score; (c) S rapport with the hypnotist; (d) S resistance to the hypnotist; and (e) overall subjective rating of trance experience were employed to measure any differences between the 2 groups.
(8) Deaf Ss reported feeling more resistant to the hypnotist than did hearing Ss.
(9) Results suggest that: (a) AIM is internally consistent, and is significantly correlated with hypnotizability; (b) among high hypnotizable Ss, AIM scores assess an important aspect of hypnotic experience which is relatively unrelated to behavioral response to hypnotic suggestions; (c) there is no change in AIM scores associated with the sex of the hypnotist or S; and (d) there are 3 clusters of AIM items: perceived power of the hypnotist, positive emotional bond to the hypnotist, and fear of negative appraisal.
(10) By this way it gives to the other system the possibility to follow word-for-word the suggestions, given by the hypnotist.
(11) In this paper we describe a technique of hypnotic induction, using a dialogue between two hypnotists.
(12) As an expert witness, the present author participated in a court case against a lay hypnotist who was accused of abusing 9 women.
(13) Study 1 tested eight groups of 22 subjects in a 2 (level of susceptibility: high, low) x 2 (state instruction: hypnosis, waking) x 2 (rapport: present, reduced) design, rapport being inhibited by the hypnotist criticizing subjects' performance.
(14) Neither hypnotists' sex, subjects' sex, nor the interaction of these variables was significantly related to scores on the Stanford scale.
(15) Personal methods are defined in the sense of suitable mechanisms enabling the hypnotist to establish what can be seen as a true state of equilibrium between himself and his patient.
(16) We underscore the proposition (long overlooked) that the counterfactual statements in the hypnotist's induction are cues to the subject that a dramatistic plot is in the making.
(17) This perspective guided our examination of the hypnotic performance, and we noted that both the hypnotist and the subject are actors, both enmeshed in a dramatic plot, both striving to enhance their credibility.
(18) This compared to all those cases of patients who deliver without the preparatory hypnotist being present.
(19) The methods and strategy used by the lay hypnotist are presented as well as are the diverse reactions of the women involved in the case.
(20) I'm studying a BSc in psychology, but I'm learning about alien abduction, hypnotists, and sociology.
Magician
Definition:
(n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Example Sentences:
(1) In The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan’s film about two battling magicians, Bowie featured as the inventor Nikola Tesla.
(2) Asked on Wednesday if it was disingenuous to say Labor axed the funding, he replied: “The Coalition are like a bunch of B-team magicians trying to make you look everywhere except where the magic trick is actually happening so you can’t work out what’s going on.
(3) Sage Gateshead, 4–7 July Troilus and Cressida Multimedia magician Elizabeth LeCompte from New York's the Wooster Group takes on this most problematic of problem comedies.
(4) Photograph: Screengrab 8.31pm GMT Dicky Bird and Magicial Dynamo The esteemed and ancient Dickie Bird is in some kind of montage with young magician Dynamo.
(5) This article is based on the authors' book "Physician or Magician: The Myths and Realities of Patient Care" (McGraw Hill and Hemisphere, 1978).
(6) Amid the celebrations, held in front of a strange mix of celebrities that included Andy Murray, Danny Cipriani, Dynamo the magician and Katie Price, Haye was magnanimous enough to praise Chisora's durability and what he described as "one of the best chins" he has faced.
(7) His visions were sold to the city with modest pronouncements such as: “All Architects are magicians.
(8) remarkable.." Teller (is he related to the atomic physicist or the magician?
(9) HIS STORY Paul Daniels, magician, 76 We met thanks to the Ayatollah.
(10) She left to set up her own company, initially called Esage Lab (“I was thinking of something ‘sage’, as in a wizard or a magician,” she said).
(11) Crowley, who was also a mountaineer, yoga enthusiast, occultist, poet, painter, rumoured spy and magician, became known in the press as “the wickedest man in the world” after the wife of one of his disciples blamed her husband’s death on drinking the blood of a sacrificed cat.
(12) Perhaps it was the searing heat , or perhaps it was the American magician dangling outside Tower Bridge in a box.
(13) These texts, most of them based on older texts dating possibly from 3000 B.C., are comparatively free of the magician's approach to treating illness.
(14) Alongside the pictures of Hou and Xu with Mao and other leaders, there is one of their son with the magician David Copperfield.
(15) Or I lost it.” Muhammad Ali: fighter, joker, magician, religious disciple, preacher Read more Another memory I have of that time is of waking up one morning in Ali’s home and hearing Lonnie cry out, “Oh my God!
(16) It was an act of misdirection worthy of a cheap stage magician, shifting responsibility for economic failure onto those who were barely out of primary school when it happened, a shameless act of divide and rule.
(17) Officers working on the case believe that the level of expertise involved could show the perpetrators imported a magician or priest to carry out the ritual.
(18) The magician's forceps phenomenon as first discovered by Mitsui in exotropia is supposed to be a blocking reflex through the tendon organ.
(19) Astronaut Chris Hadfield, magician David Blaine, author Tim Ferriss and actress Felicia Day are among its “most loved” broadcasters at launch – a metric based on how many hearts they’ve received from viewers.
(20) 'They are warriors, sorcerers and magicians,' she says.