Hypnosis Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Hypnosis Information and Meaning
See also PSYCHOLOGY.
- autohypnotism, autohypnosis
- 1. the process of hypnotizing oneself.
- 2. the resulting state.
- biomagnetism
- 1. animal magnetism, or the power that enables some people to induce a hypnotic state in others.
- 2. physical attraction between members of opposite sexes. —biomagnetic, adj.
- hypnoanalysis
- psychoanalysis of a patiënt while he is under hypnosis. —hypnoanalytic, hypnoanalytical, adj.
- hypnogenesis
- the process of inducing a state of hypnosis. —hypnogenetic, adj.
- hypnotherapy
- psychotherapy employing hypnosis. —hypnotherapeutic, adj.
- hypnotism
- the science that studies hypnosis and the process of inducing a hypnotic state. —hypnotist, n.
- Mesmerism
- 1. hypnosis as induced by Dr. F. A. Mesmer through “animal magnetism,” a 19th-century therapy.
- 2. hypnotism.
- 3. a compelling attraction; fascination. —mesmerization, n. —mesmerist, mesmerizer, n.
- mesmeromania
- an obsession with hypnosis.
- monoideism
- the focusing of the attention on a single thing, especially as a result of hypnosis.
- narcohypnosis
- hypnosis with the aid of drugs.
- odylism
- the theory of od, a hypothetical force formerly held to pervade all nature and to reveal itself in magnetism, mesmerism, chemical action, etc. —odylic, adj.
- psycheism
- Rare. the state of being in a hypnotic trance.
- somnipathy
- a state of sleep induced by hypnosis or mesmerism. —somnipathist, n.