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Monster Essays - Hypnosis
Hypnosis
The British Medical Association and the American Medical Association has
called it "a temporary condition of altered attention in the subject that may
be induced by another person," (Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia) but there is
still much about hypnosis that is not understood. Because it resembles normal
sleep, it was studied and was found that the brain waves of hypnotized people
are more similar to the patterns of deep relaxation than anything else. Rather
than a psychic or mystical idea, hypnosis is now looked upon as a form of
highly focused concentration in which outside influences are ignored.
The most known feature of the hypnotic trance i....
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