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Chapter 3 Hypnosis Is Not Magic—Hypnosis Without Exaggeration (2)
Her neck stretched forward, as if looking forward.After a while, she suddenly said excitedly: "I saw it! Ah! I saw her. She was walking out of the mall in a hurry and in a panic."

Hypnotist: "Is someone following her?"

She made another motion of searching forward, "Yes, it's a man wearing a black top hat, and his hat is pushed down very low."

Hypnotist: "How old is that person?"

Eyewitness: "About 30 years old."

Hypnotist: "Look carefully to see if there are any features on his face."

Witness: "His face is round, and there seems to be a mole on the chin."

Hypnotist: "What is he doing?"

Witness: "Walk to the woman in the fox fur coat..." The hypnotized woman suddenly cried out in shock: "Ah! The man took out a pistol from his pocket, and he shot, killing her. Killed!"

The hypnotist continued to ask, "Where did the man who shot the gun go?"

Witness: "He pulled his hat with his hands, turned around and ran into the mall, slammed his body against the door, and looked back at the woman he killed!"

The middle-aged woman who witnessed the murder recalled what she saw and heard at the time under hypnosis, and provided the appearance of the murderer.Based on the clues she provided, the police finally caught the murderer.

This is a real case of using hypnosis to solve a case.The middle-aged woman who was the eyewitness at the scene couldn't tell what happened to her when she was awake, but under hypnosis, she was able to describe the murder process in detail.Why does this miraculous phenomenon occur?There is such an example, which may answer the confusion in our hearts.

Xiao Lin's first love girlfriend was Xiao Xin, but later Xiao Xin got blood cancer.Xiao Xin went to the United States alone for treatment without telling Xiao Lin.Later, Xiaolin heard that Xiaoxin died in the United States because of treatment failure.At the beginning, Kobayashi was very painful.However, a girl named Xiaoting walked into his life at this time, and the two soon fell in love and got married.

When the two of them took their wedding photos, they asked a friend of theirs to help.During the photo shoot, the friend didn't pay much attention to people other than the couple.When the photos were developed, he suddenly found a photo of the dead Xiaoxin.It turned out that Xiaoxin was not dead, but this friend didn't know whether to tell Xiaolin.

In fact, our brain is like this camera, your eyes are the lens of the camera, and your brain is the film of the camera.In daily life, our brains will completely record the scenes we see and the activities of people around us, but our consciousness cannot completely extract the information in the brain.

For example, the middle-aged woman in the aforementioned murder case, she clearly saw the whole process of the murder case, but she couldn't recall it.This is a typical example of the failure of consciousness to extract information from the brain.If her memory information cannot be retrieved, it will inevitably cause serious obstacles to the investigation of the murder case.

Hypnosis is an effective way to extract subconscious memories in our brains.Under hypnosis, the hypnotist can completely extract the information stored in the brain of the hypnotized person through the hypnotized person's language and other performances, and then have a clear understanding of the situation at that time.

To put it simply, hypnosis is to use hypnosis to extract information that has been unable to be extracted from the brain.

Further Reading: History of Hypnosis
If you want to understand hypnosis more deeply, you must find the source of hypnosis.Hypnotism has a very long history.Hypnosis originated in India, and there is a shadow of hypnosis in ancient Indian yoga.

Three to 4000 years ago, hypnotism in ancient India was introduced to Western countries such as Greece, Rome, Persia, Judea, and Egypt by the team performing yoga.In these Western countries with a strong religious atmosphere, hypnotism has been warmly welcomed.After the research and practice of several generations of hypnotists, the West has gradually developed a set of hypnotism of its own.

There are also records about hypnotism in ancient India in the ancient Chinese book "Liezi".During the time of King Wen of Zhou, the Xiji people came to China. They could dive into fire, penetrate gold and stone, move mountains and water, change the shape of things, and eliminate the worries of others.These are the early uses of hypnotism.

In the West, astrology was popular in the Middle Ages, and hypnotism was combined with astrology to become a kind of astrology.Until 1766, the astrology master Mesmer put forward the theory of magnetism to cure diseases after years of research.And Mesmer's hypnosis uses magnetism to treat patients.

Mesmer's hypnotic method is to choose a dimly lit room and place a large bucket in the center of the room.A lot of magnetic rods are installed around the water bucket, allowing the patient to sit around the water bucket and touch the patient's diseased position with the magnetic rods.

Then, wearing a coat made of silk and holding a long whip, Mesmer appeared in front of the patient to the sound of music, looking very mysterious.He walked from patient to patient, touching afflicted parts with a long whip or hand, prompting them to cry out, drowsy, or convulse violently.Afterwards, the patient's symptoms disappeared.Mesmer called this therapy "animal magnet therapy". In 1784, King Louis XVI of France believed that Mesmer's treatment was really harmful to customs, so he was expelled to Germany.

In 1842, Brad in England liberated hypnosis from the mysterious atmosphere of Mesmer, and began to explain and develop hypnosis from a scientific point of view.

In 1885, Freud, a young doctor from Vienna, Austria, visited the Sarbertler Hospital.It was in this hospital that Freud began to study hypnotism.At that time, a doctor named Broyer successfully used hypnosis to treat hysterical patients in the Salbert Leslie Hospital.

A woman named Jennifer suffers from a strange disease. She is often very annoyed because of dry mouth, but she does not drink water to quench her thirst.After seeing many doctors, they couldn't find the cause of this strange disease.So Dr. Broyell hypnotized her.Under hypnosis, Jennifer recalled a scene that disgusted her.She saw that the governess she hated was feeding the dog water from a glass, and Jennifer was very displeased with the governess' behavior.However, she was too embarrassed to scold her, so she suppressed this dissatisfaction in her heart.

Under hypnosis, Jennifer strongly expressed the unpleasant feeling of burying the past in her heart, and at the same time made the same disgusted expression as at that time.When Jennifer woke up from the hypnosis, the unpleasant feeling disappeared.Jennifer also no longer gets annoyed with dry mouth and doesn't drink water as she used to.

In fact, hysterical symptoms are related to the patient's past experiences and disgusting memories.Hypnosis for the patient can enable the patient to recall those disgusting past events in the hypnotic state, and in the hypnotic state, vent the unhappiness that is deeply suppressed in the heart.When the patient ends the hypnosis, he will find that the unpleasant feeling has disappeared, and the hysterical symptoms will naturally disappear.

This method of treatment is actually a step forward in Mesmer's emotional purification therapy, which extends the search for the ultimate cause of mental illness to the patient's repressed unpleasant feelings.

From what he saw and learned in this hospital, the young Freud gradually became convinced that there was a "space" in the human mind covered by the general state of consciousness, in which there was an extremely powerful psychological process. .This idea is the embryonic state of psychoanalytic theory.

In the summer of 1889, Freud began to learn from Liaiboer.Freud learned a lot of experimental methods and hypnosis experience from him: after the patient wakes up, the suggestion implemented during the hypnosis process can still play a role in the subconscious of the patient (post-hypnotic suggestion); Memories, which allow patients to relive past experiences, and so on.

In the process of learning, Freud gradually discovered that hypnosis is not a panacea in the treatment of mental illness.He believes that the limitations of hypnotism are mainly reflected in two aspects: first, not all mental patients can be hypnotized (such as patients with split personality tendencies); second, not all patients who can be hypnotized can be guided at will To the deep hypnotic state expected by the hypnotist.In other words, among the people who can accept hypnosis, there are still many people who cannot reach the state of deep hypnosis.However, in the state of shallow hypnosis, under normal circumstances, no therapeutic effect can be produced.

In order to break the bottleneck that hysteria can only treat hysteria, Freud decided to abandon hypnotism.However, the immediate cause of Freud's abandonment of hypnotism was such an accidental event.

Once, Freud performed hypnotherapy for a female patient who was in pain. After the hypnosis ended, the pain of the female patient was relieved a lot, and she suddenly hugged Freud.Afterwards, Freud believed that the reason why this happened was mainly because there was a special factor of hypersexual sexual impulse in the process of hypnosis.In order to prevent this from happening again, Freud decided not to perform hypnosis.

In fact, when hysterics are used to treat hysteria, the same situation as above often occurs in the last stage of the treatment.Freud once said that the main reason for this phenomenon lies in the patient's trust in the hypnotist.During hypnosis, the patient will give his mind to the hypnotist and feel that everything about him is at the mercy of the hypnotist.

In this process, the patient will have an abnormal and over-dependent emotion towards the hypnotist.Especially when the two are of the opposite sex, this emotion is in danger of developing into an abnormal relationship.When the patient's feelings are not accepted by the hypnotist, disputes arise and become scandals.This was not uncommon at the time.

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