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- A trancelike state or behavior resembling sleep, characterized primarily by
increased suggestibility and induced by suggestion.
- A state of decreased general awareness with heightened attention to a
constricted of localized area of stimulation, such as repetitive suggestions by
another person (the hypnotist) involving consciousness, memory, anesthesia, or
paralysis. The state usually is associated with the feeling that the
subject is behaving nonvolitionally even though aware of what the behavior is.
Factors determining the subject's responsivity include the nature of the
preexisting relationship with the hypnotist; prior expectations, beliefs, and
motivations concerning hypnosis, and most important, characterological and
individual differences.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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