Definition of Self-hypnosis

1. Noun. Hypnosis induced by yourself.

Generic synonyms: Hypnosis

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-hypnosis

self-fulfilling prophecy
self-fulfillment
self-generated
self-giving
self-governing
self-government
self-gratification
self-harm
self-harmer
self-hating
self-hatred
self-help
self-help devices
self-help groups
self-hypnosis (current term)
self-image
self-images
self-immolate
self-immolation
self-immolations
self-importance
self-important
self-imposed
self-improvement
self-incrimination
self-induced
self-inductance
self-induction
self-indulgence

Literary usage of Self-hypnosis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Alternative Medicine: Expanding Medical Horizons by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"Women have also used self-hypnosis to control pain during delivery (Rossi, 1986). ... Another study reported that self-hypnosis led to an increase in white ..."

2. Feeling Psychologically Treated, and Prolegomena to Psychology by Denton Jaques Snider (1905)
"We might, therefore, call Self-Hypnosis the free Hypnosis, ... But at present we must consider Self-Hypnosis (less frequently but more correctly called ..."

3. Hypnotism: Its History, Practice and Theory by John Milne Bramwell (1906)
"Putting aside the question of self-hypnosis amongst fakirs and other ... In several instances they made use of self-hypnosis for operative purposes, ..."

4. The Consciousness of Communion with God: A Study in the Psychology of Religion by Gilbert Lee Pennock (1919)
"Automatisms: self-hypnosis: Extatic Intoxication. The consideration of the theory of hallucination leads by a natural and easy ..."

5. The Consciousness of Communion with God: A Study in the Psychology of Religion by Gilbert Lee Pennock (1919)
"Automatisms: self-hypnosis: Extatic Intoxication. The consideration of the theory of hallucination leads by a natural and easy transition to the ..."

6. Subjective Concepts of Humans: Source of Spiritistic Manifestations by John J. Donnelly (1922)
"Now we, in modern times, know that the method followed by the Yogi of old will produce self-hypnosis, and since man was the same then as he is now, ..."

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