I was a psychology major and we studied hypnosis.
I was a psychology major and we studied hypnosis and the outcome it can have on a person’s thinking. Psychiatrists believe that hypnosis have caused dramatic changes in patients’ lives and have facilitated some radical changes in behavior. While I do believe that a change probably took place, I contest that hypnosis was actually the reason for the change. I believe to hypnotize anyone – man or woman, young or old – can only be as effective if the basic desire to change is there all along. The actual act of hypnotizing, in my opinion, gives the person permission to be what s/he desires in to be in the first place.