Essay About Psychological State And Subjects Mind

Hypnosis
Essay title: Hypnosis
Hypnosis is a psychological state whose existence and effects are strongly debated. Some believe that it is a state under which the subjects mind becomes so suggestible that the hypnotist, the one who induces the state, can establish communication with the subconscious mind of the subject and command behavior that the subject would not choose to perform in a conscious state (even behavior to be performed after the subject has left the hypnotic state, through post-hypnotic suggestion,) or even behavior the subject would be incapable of in a conscious state, such as not feeling pain, manifesting skin blisters as if the subject had been burned, or recalling things the subjects conscious memory does not retain. However, there is strong dispute and skepticism about what behavior and effects hypnosis can induce; some believe that the state does not actually exist, and that all effects of hypnotism that have been observed are in actuality a combination of subjects expectations (based on their beliefs of hypnotisms effects) and their desire to please the hypnotist (see Hawthorne Effect).