Hypnosis

Over one hundred and fifteen years ago, one man dared to venture into an area of science that had never even been touched before by any scientist. Sigmund Freud and his studies on psychoanalysis have certainly impacted science in a major way. In his career, he collaborated with another scientist, wrote two books, allowed for new schools to open, and most importantly, he revolutionized the way people thought about the human mind (Palmer, Colton, and Kramer). Freud devoted his life to studying the…

The film Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, is the most biting movie on race that has had mainstream success in recent years. A film based around the premise of a black man visiting his white girlfriend’s parents for the weekend, explores many of the same topics discussed in Gender, Media, and Culture. Get Out is unwaveringly clear in its theme of denying the idea that America has progressed to the point of becoming a post-racial society. Peele employs numerous themes to support this idea,…

writing well known pulp/science fiction novels. Hubbard was struggling with income and soon realized that creating a new religion, would make him rich quickly. Donald M. Grant states, “Hubbard took up ritual magic, the occult and hypnosis, giving demonstrations of hypnosis in 1948 and writing to his literary agent about a therapy system he was working on that had tremendous promotional and sales potential. Piecing together hypnotic techniques, Freudian theories, Buddhist concepts and elements of…

Freedom of the Will Consider a case involving hypnosis. When someone else decides our actions for us, do we have any input in what actions we take? When under the power of hypnosis, do we truly display the freedom of will? Are we truly free to make choices and act upon them? Freedom of the will, according to Frankfurt, is compatible with determinism; however, his inability to refute the possibility that second order desires may be predetermined allows for the conclusion that all humans truly do…

Elizabeth Loftus has conducted a number of studies on memory and on how memory can be affected; in this article she discusses repressed memories. Loftus focuses on repressed memories of sexual abuse, however she makes it plain that she is not discussing memories that individuals have had since an incident occurred and never disclosed, but she is discussing memories that before going to a therapist an individual had not had before. In her article Loftus discusses techniques that are used to…

substantial settlements. The author asserts that research is revealing how “suggestion and imagination” can cause an individual to generate recollections of experiences that never really transpired. Consequently, the article conveys that through hypnosis and suggestive techniques repressed memories were actually found to be fabricated recollections that had been evoked and rooted by therapists. Loftus questions…

Rock, Paper, Scissors rocked my nigh and hopefully something that I hope I will do it again someday. Hopefully next time I’ll win! Then came the Hypnotist. Downright the creepiest yet coolest experience ever! Two of the softball girls fell under the hypnosis, one voluntarily, the other not so much. Talking with them after the show made me realize neither of them knew what happened to them at all. I’m hoping my college years exist filled with laughs and experiences like these…

of people broke into a deep, slow, rhythmical chant of ‘B-B!”. “It was a refrain that was often heard in moments of overwhelming emotion. Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis” (Orwell 21). This quote represents the cult like rituals made by the everyday people in the novel 1984. In a free world, where nothing is private, and no one is truly free. Freedom being able to do anything, which they think they can do, yet…

The Piteşti Experiment The word “Gulag” immediately conjures images of primitive concentration camps, buried deep in Siberia; yet, there were camps in other communist countries that rivalled, and even exceeded, Russian camps in intensity, like the Jilava prison and Piteşti prison in Romania. These names may mean nothing to many in the Western world, but to Eastern Europeans represent one of the darkest pages in their history. According to Sorin Iliesiu (2005), the Piteşti prison was a…

Anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem. Research into anxiety disorders has shown that up to 1 in 10 people will have an anxiety disorder each year and up to 1 in 4 adults will experience a type of anxiety in their lifetime (S. Hina and P. Hina). Anxiety comes in many different types which all include different symptoms, ways of prevention, and treatments. Anxiety comes in different types and all have different symptoms. It is a normal thing in life to feel anxious and it…