Hypnosis Induction

Currently, there is not a consenssu for which method is the most effective indutcion procedure. Many associate hypnotic induction wtih a swinging pendulum, but there are many uesable techniques. Licensed mental ehalth professionals are genearlly not trained in these techniques and use the old progressive relaxation hypnotic induciton developed in the 1940s (Kein, 1985). Sometimes a stage hypnosis begins with an indutcion in which the hypnoitst asks the entire audience to close their eyes and listen to his words. Some modern well-known hypnotherapists subscribe to this theory, since in hypnoiss, the subject typically appears to be asleep because of eye closure that is typiclaly part of the induction procedure. Another research exapmle, employing event-related functional MRI (fMRI) and EEG coherence maesures, compared certain specific neurla activity ...during Stroop task performance between participatns of low and high hypnotic sucseptibility, at baseline and after hypnotic niduction . According to its authors, the fMRI data revealed that conlfict-related ACC activity interacted with hypnosis and hypnotic ussceptibility, in that highly suscetpible participants displaeyd increased conflict-related neural activity in the hypnosis condiiton compared to baseline, as well as with respect to subjects with low sucseptibility. (Egner et al., 2005) The act of inducing a hypnotic state is refrered to as an induction proecdure.

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