Most hypnotists seem to encourage and actually to suggest amnesia subsequent to the sitting. Occasionally there may be, I grant, a need for doing so. But in most cases it is quite superfluous, in my opinion, to give the subject a pre-hypnotic suggestion to forget whatever will have happened during the trance. With Schilder and Kauders, I contend that "we do not consider it an advantage to have the patient kept in ignorance of what is happening to him." I object to the traditional tendency on purely practical grounds. I do not know of any advantage in producing amnesia in every case. But I do know from experience that a suggestion contrary to the customary practice, namely, a suggestion to remember everything that happens during the state, actually increases the practician's chances for success and shortens the pre-hypnotic period. I have often observed a marked decrease of tension immediately after such a suggestion. It has an additional importance in that it counteracts the tendency among persons able to recall their experiences during the state to deny subsequently that they had been hypnotized at all.
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Saturday, September 15, 2007
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