Pasadena - St. Luke's Hospital - 1958

In this six-hour lecture, Erickson describes 1) Hypnotic Phenomena: including fixation & narrowing of attention, time-lag, catalepsy, pseudo-wakefulness, rapport, ideomotor activity, amnesia, hyperamnesia, regression, time distortion, dissociation, somnambulism, psychophysiology, and posthypnotic suggestion; 2) Dynamics of Hypnosis: including hypnotic literalness, response readiness, subjective involvement, participation, learning, indirect suggestion reorientation, emotional reaction, goals and expectancy, problem analysis, confidence, expectation, understanding, tailoring, and symbolism; 3) Techniques of Hypnosis: including eye fixation and muscle relaxation, repetition, informal induction, joining, acceptance, reframing, utilization, teaching, future orientation, empowerment, conditioning, competition, and autohypnosis. Includes a demonstration of hypnosis using a naïve subject.