Essays on Hypnosis

Complementary and alternatives medicines (CAM) contain a broad variety of intercessions, from weight control plans and supplements to reflection and T'ai Chi that originates from a wide range of orders and customs. Most are thought to be outside the domain of traditional drug, in spite of the fact that others, including vitamin D, work out, needle therapy and cooling technique are being used in scientific research. CAM has been of great use to many people. For example, a variety of substitute therapies may be given to minimize the dangerous effects of stress. Some of the therapies are Reiki, hypnosis ...

Woolsey, Brittany. "Reporter's Notebook: Did I Really Get Hypnotized At The OC Fair? Yes And No". Daily Pilot. N.p., 2016. Web. 25 July 2016. The article, “Reporter's Notebook: Did I really get hypnotized at the OC Fair? Yes and no”, was written by a reporter Brittany Woolsey. It was published in Los Angeles Times on the 23rd of July 2016. In this article, Brittany Woolsey writes about her experience of taking part in hypnotist Mark Yuzuik's show. Despite trying to follow the instructions, she was not able to be hypnotized. The reporter restates Mark Yuzuik's words that hypnotized people ...

Introduction

Evaluating an argument is crucial if we are to come up with a good judgment about the validity of certain statements. There is a need to critically examine the fairness, reliability and relevance of a given premise to establish if they are valid enough to support the conclusion. This paper aims to examine the given dialogues and provide a critical analysis of the arguments by evaluating the statements, on whether they provided a clear argument or not. Specifically, the statements will be examined against the ARG conditions to determine their acceptability, relevance and sufficiency of grounds in support of ...

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Consciousness Consciousness is hard to define, as researchers tend to describe it with the help of broad terms that usually vary from scholar to scholar. Some of them claim that it is the only phenomenon that distinguishes us from animals, while the others insist that consciousness helps humans to acknowledge the world around them. Overall, consciousness is considered to be an awareness of a person’s mental processes, like thoughts, feelings, or sensations (Taye, 2010). Consciousness experiences tend to change constantly, for example, in one moment a person can look at the sky and in a second read a ...

One of the ironies of criminology is the unreliable nature of eyewitness testimony. So many convictions obtained on the basis of eyewitness testimony have been later overturned, whether on the basis of DNA evidence or other indices demonstrating that the accused simply could not have committed the crime, and yet the eyewitnesses believe that they are telling the truth. Forensic interviewing becomes a crucial element of the investigation process, as the questioners have to decide whether or not the information they have elicited is as accurate as possible. The cognitive interview takes the point of view of the eyewitness ...

Attitudes and Beliefs of Hypnosis amongst Mental Health Professionals and the Impact on the Availability of Hypnosis Training in Counseling Training Programs

Abstract

Nine out of ten general practitioners are approached by their patients for information regarding alternative and complementary therapies, including hypnotherapy, and three out of four GPs provide referalls for hypnotherapy (Hall & Giles-Corti, 2000). A minority of healthcare providers, however, has ever received formal education and training in hypnosis, and a majority relies on lay information from the media and other non-authoritative sources to form its opinions about the merits or demerits of hypnotherapy. Mental healthcare standards dictate ...

Insights into German’s History on the example of the movie “Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler”

In the 20th century, Germany was troubled, because long term warfare, which made the German citizen exhausted, crumbling social system and the high costs of war put enormous pressure on the people. In spite of the above-mentioned situation and the horrible consequences of the two World Wars, in which Germany was the main participant, at that time, German cinema was developing, German films dominated in the Central Europe, and the number of companies and filmmakers was increasing. The German government realized the importance of film in terms of publicity, so that it has set up a special agency under ...

Psychopathologies, also known as psychological disorders have become a growing concern in the society. The more modernized the world becomes, the greater the need of illuminating just how necessary it is to try to understand the roots of mental illness and situations that may cause mental disturbance. The media has played a great role in trying to bring out case studies in form of documentaries, television series, movies and even books and stories. However, there is still much more to be done in terms of creating awareness when it comes to these mental diseases, which by the way can ...

Questions & Answers

Questions and Answers

Every theory must be proved by results of scientific studies. If the theory cannot be confirmed by scientific methods this theory is likely to be wrong. Learning styles theory was not proved by results of any researchers that are why scientist believes that the theory is only a one more psychological myth. Riener & Willingham (2010) indicate that proponents of the idea of learning styles believe that if a teacher knows about learning styles of his/her students the teacher will be able to teach students effectively independently of the content of learning materials. According to the theory ...

Misconception Diary: Brain Myths

I feel that there are so many things about this lecture that showed me that I have many misconceptions about the brain. I am not sure if I can really just pick one misconception about the brain. One of these misconceptions would be the brain may need to grow or get rid of synaptic connections between the neurons. I would never think that the brain would need to lose these connections in order to learn something. I always imagined that the brain would get bigger and stronger with an intelligent person. I don’t know why I have this ...

This myth is very popular. It is not surprised that I used to believe in the myth about left and right brains. It seems to me that almost all my friends, relatives, acquaintances believe in the idea that people who have more developed right hemisphere are more talented, creative and even genius. I do not remember when I learned this myth the first time, but I know that even some of my school teachers hold this myth. I used to believe that left-handers are very special or that to be left-hander is better than to be a right-hander. One ...

Psychology is the scientific study of how the mind works and how people chose to act.

(Feldman & Dinardo, 2009, p.5) Psychology encompasses many areas of analysis: how people feel, how people act, how they learn, how they are driven, and how they think. Understanding why people behave the way they do can benefit people in many areas of life. If you know why someone does something it is easier to find a way to get them to do it. The reverse is also true that if you know the cause of someone’s behavior you may be able to find the remedy to stop that behavior. This field of study is extremely useful in working ...

Kansas City Metro Areas

General overview The majority of facilities supporting the homeless are shelters, thus they may have the waiting list. Moreover, there is an eligibility criterion and the list of requirements, i.e., a candidate shall prove employment search, or have dependents.

HOMELESS POPULATION

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THE COMFORT AND PAIN RELIEF NEEDS

OF THE ANTEPARTUM, INTRAPARTUM, & POSTPARTUM PATIENT Pregnancy and Pain One of the miracles of nature is Pregnancy. Two cells that cannot be seen by the naked eye join and create a human being that walks, talks, thinks, loves, and lives. For women this stage of their life is a time of happiness and sometimes of concern. They realize that now they are in charge of their lives and the life of a new individual. While most pregnancies run a normal smooth course, some others can become high risk pregnancies. Mothers become aware of the many changes occurring in their bodies ...

Introduction

Primal fear is an investigative movie, which tries to unravel the murder of a famous Bishop in Chicago. A young altar boy (Aaron) has been arrested for his murder. Aaron looks like an innocent kid, who stutters, and he is represented by Vail, who is a famous attorney. Vail believes that Aaron is innocent. In the middle of the trial, Vail finds out that Aaron has a disorder. With the disorder Aaron acts differently, he is a foul mouthed, violent, and obnoxious. Vail finds a sex tape that shows Aaron, another altar boy and a girl having sex, and they are being directed by the ...

Introduction

The phenomenon of alien abduction has insisted on the emergence of research procedures that would define the concept by which these assumptions could be proven wrong or not. Relatively, it could be realized that in the field of psychology, unlike in the field of mystified science, alien abduction is seen to have been rooted on the distinct course by which experts intend to see why the sensation happens, and why the assumption itself is developed. The exploration of the issue on alien abduction is completely identified with what is assumed as a consistent experience that a person needs to contend with ...

The nature, causes, symptoms and diagnosis of psychological disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), are not clear and highly controversial. Two different models namely the Sociocognitive model and the Posttraumatic model are put forward explain psychopathologies, diagnosis, and disease etiology associated with DID. The Sociocognitive model suggests that DID, as a psychological disorder, is a product of social and historical circumstances. In contrast, the Posttraumatic model explains that DID disorder occurs because of severe traumas. According to Spanos (1994), the number of patients suffering from multiple personality disorder increased rapidly over the past 20 years in North America. This diagnosis offered a ...

ADULT

Abstract Sexual offences on children are a very traumatic event for them. This is the main reason why they repress this abuse in order to protect themselves from the memories. The statute of limitation comes in handy for this kind of claims. It enables people to be able to defend themselves against these claims when they are innocent and it helps the plaintiff to give evidence they may have about the issue. There have been many cases where adults have been able to remember abuses from childhood and have taken their perpetrators to court. The main reason for doing ...

Memory

Memory is defined as a series of processes that encode sensory information, store it, and retrieve it. There are several types of memory, but the most common types discussed include working memory, procedural memory, semantic memory, and episodic memory.

Effects of Meditation on Memory

Meditation was found to decrease mind wandering, which resulted in the improvement of working memory capacity and overall cognitive performance (Mrazek, Franklin, Phillips, Baird, & Schooler, 2013). Cerebral blood flow, verbal fluency, and logic memory improved in patients with memory loss after 8 weeks of meditation training (Newberg, Wintering, Khalsa, Roggenkamp, & Waldman, 2010). Because of the increases of cerebral blood flow and ...

Tina Barry

Introduction Modern psychology relies primarily in experimentation. Since animals and human beings constitute the subjects of experimentation, precautionary measures continue to improve the process of experimentation while producing the less possible amount of damage to animals or human beings. Thus, different models, approaches and theories keep coming up as to how to do experimentation in psychology for furthering research. Danziger (1985) writes that the experimentation in psychology has evolved as a social institution (Danziger, 1985, p. 133). Similarly, Schultz (1970) recognizes that modern psychological experimentation is the result of a long history of developments that have shaped this science ...

There are many mental illnesses in the world that can send chills down one’s spine merely by thinking about them. One of the such disorders is the dissociative identity disorder; in common parlance known as multiple personality disorders. This illness has been the subject of many novels and movies. ‘Tell me your dreams’ by the illustrious author Sydney Sheldon is a case in point. One of the most famous cases of multiple personality disorders is that of Sybil, which was fictionalized in the book ‘Sybil’ in 1973; it was later made into a movie. The movie embodies the spirit of ...

Abstract

Conventional medicine or mainstream medicine, which is often called as allopathic medicine, is based on the Cartesian model of dualism that holds the view that the human body and the mind are two entities. On the contrary, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) views the human body and the mind as a single entity. Many mainstream therapies were once considered complementary until they were proven clinically effective through research. Currently, many mainstream practitioners are adopting CAM therapies to provide integrated or holistic care. The National Institutes of Health and National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIH/NCCAM) have divided CAM therapies ...

This paper throws a light on the life of the famous American poet, Anne Sexton. The paper discusses her personal life, career life, her style of writing poetries, the reviews she has received with the period of time on her poems and my personal opinion about her writings. 1. Anne Sexton’s Personal Life Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a famous poet and playwright of her time. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was Ralph Harvey who was a successful woolen manufacturer. Her mother was Mary Gray Staples. She was an unwanted third daughter in the family. She ...

This paper throws a light on the life of the famous American poet, Anne Sexton. The paper discusses her personal life, career life, her style of writing poetries and reviews she has received with the period of time on her poems.

Anne Sexton’s Personal Life:

Anne Gray Harvey Sexton was a famous poet and playwright of her time. She was born in Newton, Massachusetts. Her father was Ralph Harvey who was a successful woolen manufacturer. Her mother was Mary Gray Staples. She was an unwanted third daughter in the family. She was raised in a middle-class environment. Her life remained uneasy due to the fact that her ...

Hypnosis, also known as hypnotherapy is a psychological state or a trance-like state in which one has heightened concentration and focus. Normally, hypnosis uses intense concentration, guided relaxation and focused attention to attain an enhanced state of awareness which is sometimes known as a trance. When in this state, the person’s attention is focused to an extent that, everything in motion around that person is ignored or temporarily blocked out. With the help of a health professional such as a trained therapist, people can focus their attention in this naturally occurring state. Notably, being hypnotized is characterized by relaxation, concentration, expectation, and suggestion. ...

The fact that Tina hears voices that command her to perform hygienic activities is a first sign of abnormal psychology. Auditory hallucinations are usually referred to as symptoms of schizophrenia, but before setting a diagnosis, Tina’s case must be carefully evaluated by taking into consideration all the information that she provided, included her own believe that her symptoms are a result of a witchcraft performed by her boyfriend for controlling her and the current research in the field of psychopathology. As Tina confessed that she has used methamphetamines heavily in the past several months, this can be an indication that her ...

Hypnosis

One’s perception of hypnosis often includes the idea of people charmed to do things while under a state of trance which can be either comedic or appalling in nature. This perception is often fueled by media titles with themes like sci-fi, fantasy, and even horror as these themes would show how hypnosis is done to remove one’s free will or bring one into a state wherein he finds himself in his own world while his body performs mechanically. While these media descriptions of hypnosis is somehow true given hypnosis’ definitions, many are left unaware as to the true nature ...

How Psychodynamic Therapies Have Changed since Freud

Introduction Psychodynamics can be described as a series of propositions about the following factors motivational processes, unconscious cognitive, affective and motivational processes. This refers to the mental depictions of the character, others and interactions, developmental dynamics, the origin of many personalities and social dispositions in childhood. This also covers the tendency for effectiveness and dynamics to operate parallel and produce different solutions that are of compromising solutions (Ballen, 1997). A large number of research bodies in the area of development, social, personality psychology and cognitive have supported these propositions. However, Freud’s systematic legacy has propositions for a wide array ...

Hypnosis, is an interesting part of psychology. Usually, under the hypnotherapy, which is similar to trance, people feel completely relaxed and calm with their focus and concentration heightened. Hypnotherapy allows the hypnotist to influence the subconscious of the person by means of the suggestions which are implemented by verbal repetition and certain mental images. There is no consensus on how hypnosis works between the scientists for more than two hundred years, moreover, the science cannot explain this phenomenon completely either. There is a lot of information in the Mass media and social media on what a person is capable of doing ...

Hypnosis, is a state, very similar to trance, in which your focus and concentration are heightened. Hypnotherapy is usually performed by a therapist with the help of verbal repetition and specific mental images. Once you have entered this state - you are completely relaxed and calm, furthermore, you are more open to suggestions and influence. People have been arguing for over 200 years, about how hypnosis works, but even science can not explain this phenomenon exactly. Many of us have seen what a person is capable of doing under hypnosis, but why he actually does it, remains a mystery. Secret, the disclosure of ...

In the last century, psychoanalysis has incorporated itself as one of the paramount disciplines within the field of psychiatry. The father of psychoanalysis is unequivocally Sigmund Freud; and while the science of psychoanalysis has advanced far beyond Freud, and his basic principles, his influence is still strong and pervasive. Freud’s basic principles are central in the practice of psychiatry and in psychotherapeutic practice; namely, psychic determination, unconscious mental activity, and the effects on childhood on the development of our adult psyche (Semple, Smyth, Burns, Darjee, & McIntosh, 2005). Freud also focused on the role of meaning in his vision ...

ABSTRACT

The involuntarily and subconscious behavior of some individuals can be described as extraordinary capabilities. When individuals cannot consciously account for their actions, the phenomena is called ideomotor effect. The effect is not clearly understood though scientific research strongly relates it with the subconscious mind. The difficulty in conducting experiments to come up with a clear psychological and scientific explanation for the ideomotor effect, has lead to it being related to psycho-kinesis and extra sensory perception. The two (ESP AND PK) have an explainable origin from the subconscious mind although further research continues in the field. How scientists explain one sending ...

Snake oil peddlers, magicians, and charlatans have been with us since the dawn of humanity. As technology advances, the aforementioned hucksters tend to cloak their trade in the mystique of the novel and contemporary enlightenments. The belief in telekinetic activity and the idea of controlling things intrinsically with thoughts has grown in popularity as we have moved into a world where scientific advancement is providing a sound physical basis for these wonders. Promoters of ESP and psychokinesis would like people to believe that it is possible to un-tap the minds power to perform physical tasks without the exertion of physical activity. ...

Research Paper on Weight Loss Strategies

Research Paper on Weight Loss Strategies

Introduction

People who want to lose weight often think that exercising too much will lead to weight loss. What they do not understand is that exercise helps in losing weight when accompanied by a good diet program. When an individual eats a lot after completing an exercise routine, regardless if one vigorously exercises, losing weight will be difficult. Thus, is one really wants to lose weight, then the individual must adhere to various weight loss strategies to ensure one does not gain excessive weight during the training program.

Why is losing weight a societal concern? Considering the ...

Hypnosis. When many people think of it, they imagine it as a fun and entertaining activity for a party along with magicians, comedians, and karaoke. They think of it as a tool that unscrupulous characters employ, like the antique dealer in the 1991 movie Dead Again who used it to regress people to remember past lives so he could locate and steal heirlooms. In spite of hypnosis’s popular reputation as entertainment or as a tool of quacks and dodgy characters, in reality it is a valuable therapeutic method employed to help with a variety of problems such as ending harmful personal habits like smoking ...

The book Sybil is touted as a psychological study of a woman who entered into a psychologist's office, presenting with social anxiety and memory loss. The book is written by Flora Rheta Schrieber in conjunction with the woman's psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur. The woman is eventually found to be suffering from multiple personality disorder (today known as dissociative identity disorder by individuals in the psychiatric and psychological professions), a disorder that is vastly misunderstood, even to this day. The woman, who was given the pseudonym “Sybil” to protect her privacy, presented with sixteen different personalities in all. Although the severity of her ...

Although rare, multiple personality disorder is a disorder that can be diagnosed only by a psychiatrist or psychologist. An individual with this disorder has two or more different personalities. The behavior exhibited by the individual at any given time is decided by the dominant personality at that time. Most often, each personality is unaware that the other personality or personalities exist. The change between the personalities often occurs in an abrupt manner. Each personality usually has a normal mental condition. Many individuals with multiple personality disorder (MPD) are victims of child abuse. The most common form of treatment is psychotherapy (Multiple, 2010). ...

Background

Recent behavioral studies have shown the clinical relevance of meditation in the treatment of stress-related physiological and psychological illnesses. Kabat-Zinn et al. (1998) found that audio-induced mindfulness meditation reduced stress and increased the rate of healing of psoriatic lesions in patients with psoriasis. Krisanaprakornkit et al. (2006) reviewed a variety of meditation techniques on the effect of stress-related anxiety disorders and found that most meditation approaches can help patients self-regulate anxiety symptoms in a variety of anxiety conditions. In an extensive literature review comprising hundreds of studies conducted in the past 20 years, Jacobs (2001) also found that relaxation techniques and ...

Q1. What is the effect of VLSM therapy on state anxiety levels, as measured by the STAI?

Q2. What is the effect of VLSM therapy on perceived stress levels, as measured by the PSS? Research Method

This will be a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial designed to examine the effects of VLSM meditation therapy (Solfanelli, 2010) on state anxiety levels and perceived stress levels. As previously noted, state anxiety will be operationally defined as scores on Spielberger’s State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), whereas stress will be operationally defined as scores on the Perceived Stress scale (PSS).

Audio-visual stimulation (AVS) ...

Introduction and background

Depression is a global health problem but which can be contained using non-pharmacological and pharmacological approaches (Dhingra and Parle, 2011). It is the leading cause of mental disability in the whole world and it remains one of the most undertreated health issues in old age (Barry, et al, 2012). In United States, a tenth of the adult population is affected by depression each year and it is estimated that by the end of this decade depression will be the second leading cause of health disability (Dhingra and Parle, 2011). According to Dhingra, in 2011, depression was the fourth most costly disease ...

Japanese horror films through the years had made astounding contribution to the movie industry and to the horror genre in particular. One of the notable directors of great Japanese horror flicks is Kurosawa Kiyoshi who is often compared to Andrei Tarkovsky and Stanley Kubrick in terms of directing style and influence. Most of his films are focused on ho a general society affects an individual and how the society also reacts to adverse irrational and disintegrated social mechanisms. Japanese horror movies are not typical to the usual western made fright movies. As observed from many western horrors movies, they incorporate ...

Introduction

Periodontal gum disease refers to an infection in the gums. It is caused by bacteria that attack the gum and the teeth. The disease has been linked to serious conditions such as diabetes and heart disease. Dental conditions are very common these days. In children who are between the ages of 2 to 5 years, one in every four children will experience tooth decay. The number goes up in older children who are between the ages of 12 and 15 years, half of the children will have tooth decay problems. Research has shown that the minority communities and ...

What is hypnosis?

The term ‘hypnosis’ has long been associated with entertaining side-shows in which the unsuspecting member of the public is made to cluck like a chicken every time they hear a bicycle bell. However, more recently, hypnosis has become a key psychological tool in assisting patients to re-tune their mind and to relax. It is a term derived from the Greek god of sleep, Hypnos (James 1) and indeed, hypnosis does involve the patient going into a sleep-like ‘trance’ or sorts. It was first used in the 1800s by James Braid who called it ‘neurypnosis’ and thought that it was a form of paralysis of the ...