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Abreaction
An action during which emotionally charged repressed memories are brought into consciousness.
Addiction
Physical or psychological dependence on a substance, physical object, event or action, the absence of which results in craving and physical or psychological discomfort or pain.
Altered State of Consciousness (ASC)
Any mental state that is non-ordinary for the particular individual.
Amnesia
An inability to recall past event(s).
Analgesia
Insensitivity to pain.
Anchoring
The process of associating internal response with some external trigger so that the response may be quickly reaccessed.
Anxiety
A feeling of apprehensive uneasiness, often characterized by dread or anticipation of threat.
Auditory
Relating to the sense of hearing.
Auto-hypnosis
Self-hypnosis.
Auto-Suggestions
Suggestions made to oneself.
Behavior
The specific physical actions and reactions through which we interact with people and environment around us.
Behavior Modification
Changing or eliminating undesirable behavior.
Behavioral Flexibility
The ability to vary one's behavior in order to elicit a desired response from another person.
Bruxism
Gnashing or grinding of teeth.
Calibration
The process of reading another person's unconscious responses through non-verbal responses.
Catalepsy
Rigidity of body or part of the body.
Catharsis
An act of releasing strong charged emotions.
Cognitive
Pertaining to thinking, knowing, understanding of internal processing of information.
Compulsion
An act a person feels driven to repeat, often against his or her will.
Confabulation
The falsification of memory, due to a partial amnesia.
Congruence
When all of person's individual beliefs, strategies and behaviors are fully in agreement.
Context
The framework surrounding a particular event.
Convulsion
An involuntary spasm or muscular activity.
Counter Suggestion
A suggestion given to a person to displace or challenge a core or fixed idea or belief.
Criteria
The values or standards a person uses to make judgments and decisions.
Defense Mechanism
Self-protection system designed to lessen or repress certain thoughts, feelings or memories from entering the conscious mind.
Delusion
A false idea or belief.
Dissociation
Distancing or separating an individual from directly reliving an event or a scene - e.g. viewing an event as if it were
happening to someone else.
Emotional Outlet
An action or a way that serves to release emotional energy.
Euphoria
A state of extreme well-being and pleasure.
Fascination Point
An object or a place that serves as a focus during hypnotic induction.
Fractionation
Guiding the individual several times through different levels of trance, or in and out of trance, for the purpose of increasing the depth of trance.
Free Association
The spontaneous outpouring of associated ideas from the subconscious without any external censorship.
Free Floating Anxiety
Feelings of apprehension or dread that cannot be traced to any particular source.
Future Pacing
The process of mentally rehearsing oneself through some future situation in order to help ensure that the desired outcome will occur naturally and automatically.
Glove Anesthesia
A technique where an individual is thought to create a feeling of numbness in his hand and then transfer that feeling to a part of the body where pain relief is desired.
Gustatory
Relating to a sense of taste.
Habit Formation
A learned process of reacting brought about through repetition of certain actions.
Heterohypnosis
The application of hypnosis on another individual (other than one's self).
Hyperaesthesia
Heightened sensitivity to stimuli.
Hypnodontics
Using hypnosis in dentistry.
Hypnos
Greek god of sleep.
Hypnosis
A state of heightened suggestibility.
Hypnotherapy
Therapeutic use of hypnosis.
Ideomotor Response (Signaling)
Involuntary movement of the part of the body by the subconscious as a result of a suggestion or a question.
Imagination
The ability of the mind to construct or reorganize sensory data from an experience of outer or inner world, real or imagined.
Induction
An act of inducing, causing or producing a state of hypnosis.
Introspection
Self-observation of one's thoughts and feelings.
Kinesthetic
Relating to bodily sensations, including tactile, visceral and feelings.
Lethargic State
An extremely relaxed state in which an individual may display symptoms of slurred speech and inability to move.
Mental Rehearsal
Rehearsing a future event through imagination.
Multiple Personality
A psychological state in which an individual maintains two or more distinct personalities usually without any conscious recognition between them.
Negative Hallucination
Not perceiving something which is present.
NLP
Neuro-Linguistic Programming: study of the structure of subjective human experience.
Obsession
Extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
Extreme preoccupation with certain thoughts and compulsive performance of certain behaviors, both of which occur in ritualistic and unavoidable fashion.
Olfactory
Relating to sense of smell.
Outcome
Goal or a state that a person desires to achieve.
Pacing
Matching or mirroring a behavior of another for the purpose of establishing rapport.
Pain
An uncomfortable sensation experienced either through body or mind (or both).
Panic Disorder
High level of anxiety accompanied by sudden intense episodes of pain.
Parts
Independent programs and strategies of behavior, metaphorically speaking.
Phobia
An intense fear of some specific object or situation.
Placebo
An object (usually a substance) without any intrinsic value, producing effect due to individual's belief and expectation of desired effect.
Positive Hallucination
Perceiving something that is not present.
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Psychological and emotional disturbance following the stresses outside the range of normal individual's experience.
Post-Hypnotic Suggestion
A suggestion given in hypnotic state that is to be carried out after emergence out of hypnotic state.
Projection
Attributing one's one thoughts and feelings to another person.
Pseudo-Memories
False memories that a person beliefs to be accurate.
Rapport
The presence of harmony, trust and cooperation in relationship.
Regression
Experiencing an earlier time (event) as if it is occurring now.
Representational systems
The five senses: seeing, hearing, feeling (toucing), tasting, smelling.
Secondary Gain
A positive function of undesirable behavior.
State
A complete mental and physical condition from which a person is acting.
Strategy
A set of explicit mental and behavioral steps used to achieve a specific outcome.
Time Distortion
An experience of time in which it seems that the time has either sped up or slowed down.
Trance
A state of hypersuggestibility.
Visual
Relating to a sense of sight.
Well-Formed Outcome
An outcome that is stated in positive, initiated and maintained by an individual, sensory based, testable in experience, and ecological.