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  • Recently, I was introduced to a French band called Hypno5e-just like "hypnose," which is French for hypnosis, but with a "5" in place of the "s" - on a rather amazing album entitled

    All articles at Blogcritics 2010

  • Recently, I was introduced to a French band called Hypno5e-just like "hypnose," which is French for hypnosis, but with a "5" in place of the "s" - on a rather amazing album entitled

    All articles at Blogcritics 2010

  • Est-ce que c'est possible that Elisabeth has been "hypnose-d" by Hotel Costes?

    Blogging from the most spicy-scented, velvet-covered, dimly-lit hotel in the world 2008

  • Pour toute information, ce système d'espionnage, s'inscrivant dans la catégorie des équipements de type "mind control", semble se reposer en partie sur une sorte de bien sophistiquée hypnose, pratiquée directement au niveau de la matière du cerveau sans passage à travers les perceptions et les sens humains, et actionable à distance via des ondes à travers des moyens techniques très avancés.

    The Happy Listener's Guide To Mind Control 2005

  • The reality of the events which happened in childhood, lived over again in hypnose, are substantiated as much as possible by the patient's parents or associates.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • Frank says that, except in the peculiarity that he is satisfied with a lighter degree of hypnose, his method differs from that of Breuer and Freud in that generally he does not question the patient when under hypnotism, neither suggests.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • Where Breuer and Freud profited from the spontaneous or the provoked somnabulistic state of the patient, and by questioning dug up the hidden depths, Frank decided to be satisfied with a light hypnose, a state of hypotaxie, which might be termed analogous to the half-conscious state of the person who after taking a mid-day nap frequently denies having been asleep.

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

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