Article Review #3

This article is about Hypnosis and how it has been used to decrease pain during childbirth and chronic pains. It also can help reduce nausea for cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. People who are most likely to be hypnotised are children and people who indulge themselves in their dreams. During hypnosis your brain divides into two different consciousness. One of the brain's activities is responding to the hypnosis while the other is aware of everything else going on.

The article also talks about some of the common myths you hear about hypnosis. For example: while being hypnotized your hypnotizer can make you do what they please. This is false you have total control over your body. Another common myth is that you don't remember what happened while you were hypnotized. This is false sometimes amnesia can occur but it's not often. Being hypnotized can effect different people in different ways some people in the experiment done by Ernest Hilgard said they felt detached or very relaxed while other people can have full conversations while being hypnotized. In Ernest Hilgards experiment showed that being hypnotized can alter your perception. Ernest showed this by taking two people, one of them was hypnotized and the other not. Ernest placed both people arms in iced water, the person who wasn't hypnotized had to take their arm out of the water after a couple of seconds while the hypnotized contestant could leave their arm in the water for a longer period of time.

I think that it would be a good idea for psychologist to keep studding hypnosis because it can help with pain and sickness. If psychologists keep studding the brain and try and figure out how to use hypnosis in reducing pain maybe doctors can use less medicine in our daily lives.

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