An Audiovisual Demonstration Of Ideomotor Movements And Catalepsy The Reverse
In 1958 the senior author gave Ernest Hilgard and Jay Haley a demonstration in hypnotic induction at Stanford University. A videotape or 16mm film of this demonstration is available from the publisher Irvington Press, 551 Fifth Ave., New York, New York, 10017 . Although both the visual and auditory qualities of this old record are poor, it is nonetheless the best visual record we have of the senior author's uses of a variety of nonverbal approaches to catalepsy and an unusually complex form of...
A Hypnosis In Psychiatry The Ocean Monarch Lecture
This lecture is an unusually clear and succinct presentation of the senior author's approach to hypnotic induction and hypnotherapy. Given at the height of his teaching career, it represents an important shift away from the authoritarian methods of the past to his pioneering work with the more permissive and insightful approaches characteristic of our current era. In the actual words of this presentation we can witness how important concepts are in transition. While Erickson still uses the...
Dfacilitating Ideosensory Signaling
Ideosensory responses constitute a unique signaling system that can be utilized in interesting ways. They can appear in any part of the body and can be experienced in a number of different forms warmth, coolness, pressure, tingling, prickliness, itch, etc. Ideosensory signaling can be used by the patient for self-knowledge, but by its very nature this signaling does not communicate to the therapist. Thus, ideomotor signaling can be of distinct advantage when patients want to explore something...
A Catalepsy In Historical Perspective
Historically, catalepsy was regarded as one of the earliest defining characteristics of trance. Esdaile 1850 1957 used mesmeric passes to achieve a state of catalepsy wherein patients were able to experience surgical anesthesia as follows I usually proceed in the following manner, and am inclined to think that its comparative rarity in Europe is owing to the mesmeric influence not being at once sufficiently concentrated on the patient, by transmitting it to his brain from all the organs of the...