autohypnosis

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“There is a quality of trance, of autohypnosis, in her style,” Parul Sehgal wrote.

From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2021

There is a quality of trance, of autohypnosis, in her style.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2021

He trained patients to anesthetize themselves by autohypnosis; they jabbed needles into their arms without feeling it and, by means of posthypnotic suggestion, remained indifferent to the pain even after they "awoke."

From Time Magazine Archive

Pain has been abolished through some kind of autohypnosis; local surgeons operate without anesthesia by drugs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Physicians would call it natural, an effect of autohypnosis, but there is no reason why it may not have been just as miraculous as the stigmata of the saints.

From Essays In Pastoral Medicine by ?Malley, Austin