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Definition of Autohypnosis
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Medical Definition of Autohypnosis
1. Self-induced hypnosis, accomplished by concentrating on self-absorbing thought or on the idea of being hypnotised. Synonym: autohypnotism, idiohypnotism, statuvolence. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Autohypnosis
Literary usage of Autohypnosis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays in Pastoral Medicine by Austin O'Malley, James Joseph Walsh (1906)
"autohypnosis is always a mark of degeneracy in the natural order, and to call
the ecstacy of a saint autohypnosis not only takes all worth from the ..."
2. Hypnotism by Albert. Moll (1901)
"Here belongs also autohypnosis, or self-hypnosis. In this the idea of the hypnosis
is not aroused by another person, but the subject generates the image ..."
3. The Psychological Phenomena of Christianity by George Barton Cutten (1908)
"The devotees of certain religions or sects are undoubtedly hypnotized by their
priests before practising their rites, and in other cases autohypnosis is ..."
4. Rest, Suggestion, and Other Therapeutic Measures in Nervous and Mental Diseases by Francis Xavier Dercum (1917)
"autohypnosis, like the ordinary form of hypnotism, relieves the cortex of the
corrective restraint imposed in the waking condition by the contact of the ..."
5. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1903)
"... to the hypnotic trance would confirm us in placing this as a very important
exciting cause, and in positing the case as closely allied to autohypnosis. ..."
6. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"Reading oneself to sleep is a form of autohypnosis that is common and commendable.
The book or magazine should be just sufficiently interesting to divert ..."
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