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Can a psychologist using hypnotism do the following?:
A client goes in and doesn't want to be in the same religion as the family, isn't submissive to men the way the family thinks she should be, is anorexic but not to the extreme of being about to die from it (calculated to a point of only being five to ten pounds underweight at any given time), has some rebellion issues...let's say the way the rebellion is conducted is very passive aggressive: acting on stage, reading horrible poetry on stage, not correcting false impressions about sexual orientation, long drives, attempting suicide, etc. no tattoos or raves/parties or sex or theft or motorcycles. Let's say the person also has multiple diagnosed learning disorders, but the parents agreed not to do anything regarding that in school since the child was good academically in the rural (easy) school, and some of the disorders affect how she deals with people, but the parents thought she would never leave home or have a boyfriend or get married or have to work or anything anyway. She would stay home and help at home. I know this stuff is very vague but I'm getting to a point, I promise.
Can the hypnotism be worked over several sessions? For example, immediately in the first session, he decides to get permission from her to try the hypnotism. He chooses to work on the eating disorder first because of the medical issues it exacerbates and he thinks she will be more compliant if she is well fed!, so he hypnotizes and says repeated things encouraged to get her to eat. But he doesn't say it right. He only focuses on getting her to eat, not on eating healthy things, and on eating larger quantities. His English is not very good, and his limits with hypnotherapy are great since he has not practiced it much. Can he cause a problem with her eating if he says it a certain way, and does he need to "undo" the hypnotism, or is hypnotism merely like listening to suggestions, and there is no need for a command that undoes the whole thing at another session.
I am doing a review of a writer's story and am a little intrigued by the idea that there has to be a command to end the hypnotism, and that the client could go on eating and eating at each moal, particularly meals the doctor specified (at work, if she previously at nothing at work.)
It sounds like a flawed idea, but because I've not hypnotized anyone, and no hypnotism ever works on me...how can I question this writer's lines?
A client goes in and doesn't want to be in the same religion as the family, isn't submissive to men the way the family thinks she should be, is anorexic but not to the extreme of being about to die from it (calculated to a point of only being five to ten pounds underweight at any given time), has some rebellion issues...let's say the way the rebellion is conducted is very passive aggressive: acting on stage, reading horrible poetry on stage, not correcting false impressions about sexual orientation, long drives, attempting suicide, etc. no tattoos or raves/parties or sex or theft or motorcycles. Let's say the person also has multiple diagnosed learning disorders, but the parents agreed not to do anything regarding that in school since the child was good academically in the rural (easy) school, and some of the disorders affect how she deals with people, but the parents thought she would never leave home or have a boyfriend or get married or have to work or anything anyway. She would stay home and help at home. I know this stuff is very vague but I'm getting to a point, I promise.
Can the hypnotism be worked over several sessions? For example, immediately in the first session, he decides to get permission from her to try the hypnotism. He chooses to work on the eating disorder first because of the medical issues it exacerbates and he thinks she will be more compliant if she is well fed!, so he hypnotizes and says repeated things encouraged to get her to eat. But he doesn't say it right. He only focuses on getting her to eat, not on eating healthy things, and on eating larger quantities. His English is not very good, and his limits with hypnotherapy are great since he has not practiced it much. Can he cause a problem with her eating if he says it a certain way, and does he need to "undo" the hypnotism, or is hypnotism merely like listening to suggestions, and there is no need for a command that undoes the whole thing at another session.
I am doing a review of a writer's story and am a little intrigued by the idea that there has to be a command to end the hypnotism, and that the client could go on eating and eating at each moal, particularly meals the doctor specified (at work, if she previously at nothing at work.)
It sounds like a flawed idea, but because I've not hypnotized anyone, and no hypnotism ever works on me...how can I question this writer's lines?