Hypnotic-Like Procedures Used by Indigenous Healing Practitioners.
The article focuses on the use of hypnotic-like procedures by indigenous healing practitioners as explored by American psychologist Stanley Krippner. It explains how traditional rituals, chants, drumming, and spiritual practices resemble hypnosis in their use of focused attention, suggestion, and al...
| Published in: | ReVision Vol. 34; no. 3/4; pp. 33 - 46 |
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ReVision Publishing
Spring/Summer2025
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| Summary: | The article focuses on the use of hypnotic-like procedures by indigenous healing practitioners as explored by American psychologist Stanley Krippner. It explains how traditional rituals, chants, drumming, and spiritual practices resemble hypnosis in their use of focused attention, suggestion, and altered states of consciousness, while emphasizing that these methods emerged independently of modern hypnosis and reflect diverse cultural understandings of healing and spirituality. |
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