What's the difference between hypnotist and mesmerizer?
Hypnotist
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(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.
Mesmerizer
Definition:
(n.) One who mesmerizes.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mesmer, the controversial Austrian doctor, was known for his theory of animal magnetism.
(2) That was brilliant defending, but absolutely mesmeric play by City, especially by Silva and Nasri.
(3) The Medical History Society of New Jersey awarded the Stephen Wickes Prize in the History of Medicine to this original essay on Franz Anton Mesmer.
(4) Will Hughes, Tom Carroll and Forster-Caskey all displayed some mesmeric touches – Carroll’s 60-yard crossfield ball that sent Redmond in was exquisite – but the arrival of Tom Ince to play just off Kane with half an hour to go made a difference.
(5) At the other end of the rink, Jonathan Quick can be inhumanly mesmerizing when called upon by the Kings to save the day.
(6) This handful of live shows spawned a million Facebook likes-worth of hype – given that they were a rare combination of a rock band with the muscle of the American pitbull outside, but built around Brittany's mesmeric, soulful stage presence.
(7) The genesis of the amaurosis, the problem of a real therapeutical influence by Mesmer and, especially, the relationship between the music as a therapeutical medium and the musical personality of the patient are discussed in detail.
(8) And with all the mesmeric revelations at the royal courts, poor Tommy Sheridan sits in his living room , ringed by an electronic tag that forces him home before the moon rises.
(9) This brief note on the history of Bedford Square shows that this part of London was prominent in nineteenth century medicine and, in particular, was involved in the early practice of mesmerism in this country.
(10) Over a minimal, mesmeric loop, our anti-hero wakes up to find his girlfriend not in bed next to him.
(11) But his icy blue eyes were kind and mesmerizing, and the world was brighter when we were together.
(12) When Mesmer reinvented 'animal magnetism' in 1776 as a fashionable term for treatment by suggestion, he appropriated theoretical, technical and social methods from the established ways of the experiments on static electricity.
(13) There was a directness to their pressure and passing that hadn't been there for much of the season, while RSL were not allowed the space to get their usual mesmerizing passing game going.
(14) The musician and composer Maria Theresia Paradis (1759-1824) blind since her earliest childhood was treated in 1777 by the physician Dr. Franz-Anton Mesmer (1734-1815).
(15) Since Mesmer, there has been much confusion about the inter-relationship between an individual's degree of hypnotizability, the personality style of the individual and the importance of the therapeutic strategy.
(16) Gmelin had only recently become interested in mesmerism and tried this procedure with this patient.
(17) To others she is a mentally ill wannabe mesmerized by the idea of victimization.
(18) Built for the most part around the gentle tunes of singer Martin Courtney, and articulated by the complementary melodic lines of lead guitarist Matt Mondanile, Real Estate songs are almost architecturally detailed, their mesmeric repetitions evocative of streets whose layout is calm and unvarying, but within whose borders emotional stories are covertly played out.
(19) The continued presence of this phenomenon in Western psychotherapy from Mesmerism to psychoanalysis is shown.
(20) The homily mesmerized hundreds of thousands beyond the parkway, with Jumbotrons relaying the mass to pilgrims and passersby who gazed, rapt, in the hushed heart of a usually hectic city.