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Saturday, June 20, 2009
EXCELLENT ARTICLE
The Mind Prepared: Hypnosis in Surgery
Correspondence to: David Spiegel, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, 401 Quarry Rd, Ste 2325, Stanford, CA 94305-5718 (e-mail: dspiegel@stanford.edu).
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In 1846, a Scottish surgeon named James Esdaile reported 80% surgical anesthesia using hypnosis as the sole anesthetic for amputations in India. His work caused sufficient stir that when ether anesthesia was demonstrated in what is now called the Ether Dome at the Massachusetts General Hospital on October 16 of that same year, a surgeon strode to the front of the amphitheater and said, "Gentlemen, this is no humbug," to distinguish hissurgical team's demonstration from Esdaile's report. It has taken us a century and a half to rediscover the fact that the mind has something to do with pain and can be a powerful tool in controlling it: the strain in
Monday, June 15, 2009
Parts of the Mind
Subconscious or Unconscious - that part of our mind which is the seat of imagination, emotion, artistic abilities (and other skills), and which takes care of bodily functions without our conscious awareness, such as automatic functions of our organs, etc. Everything is learned by association and identification. The subconscious mind stores images, thoughts, ideas, concepts, and emotions.
Conscious - generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. The conscious mind can reason, judge, analyze and criticize. It can accept or reject information based on the beliefs held within the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is where a person has willpower.
Critical Factor - An area of the mind that is part conscious and part subconscious. (If a suggestion is given to a client that is detrimental to their well-being or in total opposition to the client's beliefs, it will affect the critical area of the mind, and the client will reject it by abreacting.)
Subconscious or Unconscious - that part of our mind which is the seat of imagination, emotion, artistic abilities (and other skills), and which takes care of bodily functions without our conscious awareness, such as automatic functions of our organs, etc. Everything is learned by association and identification. The subconscious mind stores images, thoughts, ideas, concepts, and emotions.
Conscious - generally regarded to comprise qualities such as subjectivity, self-awareness, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. The conscious mind can reason, judge, analyze and criticize. It can accept or reject information based on the beliefs held within the subconscious mind. The conscious mind is where a person has willpower.
Critical Factor - An area of the mind that is part conscious and part subconscious. (If a suggestion is given to a client that is detrimental to their well-being or in total opposition to the client's beliefs, it will affect the critical area of the mind, and the client will reject it by abreacting.)
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