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hypnosis

[hip-noh-sis] / hɪpˈnoʊ sɪs /




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Even then, though, the publication cautioned that “all leads developed through hypnosis should be verified with supporting physical or testimonial evidence … and investigative conclusion should not be based solely on hypnotically obtained information.”

From Slate ● Feb. 13, 2026

Some of the messages mentioned hypnosis sessions and offered to tell Amelie her "memories", prosecutor Nadia Silver said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025

Bianchi did so under hypnosis, and convinced more than one psychiatrist that he suffered from multiple personality disorder.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2025

Self-help videos offered advice on relationships, wellness, business success and spirituality - including hypnosis, meditation and exercise programmes.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2024

Maybe in a way, they just didn’t know any better, or maybe old Hitler was just able to pull off mass hypnosis or something.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe

Whether this be imaginable or not depends upon each one's own hypnoses.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

In accordance with the mathematical hypnoses of his era, he studied these six transits.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

It is doubtful, however, whether any of these sudden disablements should be classed as true hypnoses.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers

He realised more and more that the state was a conscious one, and that the losses of memory which followed on waking could always be restored in subsequent hypnoses.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

One may have the knowledge of a Lavoisier, and still not be able to analyze, not be able even to see, except conformably with the hypnoses, or the conventional reactions against hypnoses, of one's era.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort


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