| Abreaction |
An action during which emotionally charged repressed memories are brought into consciousness. |
| Altered State of Consciousness |
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 re accessed. |
| Anxiety |
A feeling of apprehensive uneasiness, often characterized by dread or anticipation of threat. |
| Auto-hypnosis |
Self-hypnosis. |
| Behaviour |
The specific physical actions and reactions through which we interact with people and environment around us. |
| 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 behaviours are fully in agreement. |
| 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 judgements and decisions. |
| Defence 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. |
| Euphoria |
A state of extreme well-being and pleasure. |
| Erickson, MDMilton Hyland |
Milton Hyland Erickson, MD 5/12/1901 – 25/03/1980 an American psychiatrist specializing in medical hypnosis. He was founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis |
| 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 Anaesthesia |
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. |
| 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 (Signalling) |
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. |
| Kinesthetic |
Relating to bodily sensations, including tactile, visceral and feelings. |
| Leading |
Changing your own behaviours with enough rapport for the other person to follow or match. |
| 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 behaviour of another for the purpose of establishing rapport. |
| Panic Disorder |
High level of anxiety accompanied by sudden intense episodes of pain. |
| Phobia |
An intense fear of some specific object or situation. |
| Positive Hallucination |
Perceiving something that is not present. |
| Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder |
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. |
| 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 (touching), tasting, smelling. |
| Secondary Gain |
A positive function of undesirable behaviour. |
| State |
A complete mental and physical condition from which a person is acting. |
| 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. |
| Universal quantifiers |
Linguistic term for words such as ‘every’, ‘never’ and ‘all’ implying that admit no exceptions. |
| 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. |
