Milieu Control This involves the control of information and communication both within the environment and, ultimately, within the individual,...

Cold Reading refers to a set of techniques used by professional manipulators to get a subject to behave in a certain way or to think that the cold...

Isolation, deprivation, alienation, torture, and mental abuse. Example: "He is as cold as a stone, he is as cold as a stone, he is as cold...

Pacing and leading has to do with how the hypnotist paces the experience of another, gains rapport and then leads with pacing, volume and tone with...

A harassment device used to project audible sounds and messages of sonic and subsonic interfering compression waves from a resonant cavity;...

Habit is a term in hypnosis that pertains to a pattern of behavior acquired through frequent repetition.

Dissociation is the process whereby some ideas, feelings, or activities lose relationship to other aspects of consciousness and personality and...

Catalepsy is rigidity of the limbs or the body induced by trance. The inhibition of all voluntary movements because of intense focus on an...

Imbedded suggestibility as devised by Milton Erickson, is about delivering messages indirectly to patients. The technique involves embedding...

Indirect suggestion is any communication technique used to deliver suggestions in an oblique manner. Includes presupposition, interspersal and...

Confusion technique is using great detail, non sequiturs, or ambiguous communications to overwhelm the conscious, logical aspects of the person in...

Pacing is a technique during which the hypnotist recognizes and matches the patient's speech patterns and some of her/his movements and behaviors.

Embedded suggestions are emphasized words or phrases purposely inserted into a regular conversation or hypnotic induction.

Waking Hypnosis is a strong suggestion given by a person in authority and absorbed by another person who is not necessarily in a hypnotic trance.

A phobia is a persistent illogical fear. 

The enhanced recall of detailed information from past events while under hypnosis.

The autonomic nervous system controls your unconscious bodily functions such as your heartbeat, blood pressure and digestion.