The doctor sees him dim when he thinks intently about a girl named Lois, whom he knew one enjoyable summer in Buffalo The doctor sends him to a famous clinic in Baltimore, where his trouble is diagnosed as autohypnosis. |
The part that hypnosis and autohypnosis, conscious and unconscious, has played here cannot easily be overestimated. |
His is a glassy-eyed autohypnosis that carries the voyager out like a lemming to his death. |
Conversion disorder has been associated with hypnotic susceptibility for over a century and is currently still believed to be a form of autohypnosis. |
It is not autohypnosis, something that you consciously admit. |
Rather than using hypnotic suggestion, as had Charcot, Breuer allowed her to lapse into a state resembling autohypnosis, in which she would talk about the initial manifestations of her symptoms. |