SUBJECT
Title
Affective Effects in the Regulation of Behavior: Suggestive Effects
Code
DPSY16-BRM-103:2
Type of instruction
practice
Level
Doctoral
Part of degree program
Credits
7
Recommended in
Semester 1-4
Typically offered in
Autumn/Spring semester
Course description
The aim of the course is to sensitise the participants to the suggestive effects manifested in various life situations. It introduces the main rules and principles of applications of suggestions.
Requirements: the participants will provide a summary of a suggestive phenomenon in their special field.
Main topics:
- Concept and forms of suggestions
- Suggestibility
- Modes of consciousness
- Rules of formulating suggestions
- Application of suggestions
Readings
- Bejenke, C. J. (1996) Painful medical procedures. In: Barber, J. (eds. 1996) Hypnosis and suggestion in the treatment of pain.209-265. W.W. Norton and Company, NY. London.
- Cheek, D. B. (1969) Communication with the critically ill. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 12:75-85.
- Ewin, D. M. (1986) Emergency room hypnosis for the burned patient. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 29(1):7-11.
- Hammond, D. C. (1990) Hypnotic suggestions and metaphors. Norton & Company, New York, London, 1st chapter.
- Varga K. (ed.) (2011) Beyond the words.Communication and suggestion in medical practice, Nova Science Publishers, New York.