Hypnoid

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In psychology, a hypnoid is a concept , group of ideas or a memory content that is withdrawn from consciousness. Hypnoids are full-fledged mental units that have an effect on behavior.

The term is occasionally used in hypnotherapy (see also post-hypnotic mandate ), but above all in classical or Freudian psychoanalysis , as it contains a concept that Freud and Josef Breuer first established psychodynamically in their studies on hysteria from 1895 , but later was largely replaced by Freud's repression .

According to this, an idea becomes hypnoid if it is entered in a state of reduced consciousness. It is primarily not a protective mechanism, but a psycho-vegetative process that cannot keep the registered ideas for long. They disintegrate and are lost, similar to those that are entered into a test person under artificial hypnosis. However, hypnoids can lead to the formation of protective mechanisms, especially if they cause the content of ideas to be suppressed and these organize themselves among themselves.

See also: hypnosis

Hypnoid state

In classical or Freudian psychoanalysis, a concept introduced by Josef Breuer and Sigmund Freud in their studies on hysteria from 1895 is called a hypnoid state . It contains the idea that hysterical illnesses could only arise if imaginary contents are entered in a psycho-vegetative state comparable to artificial hypnosis . Freud later developed the idea further into the concept of repression and discarded it in parts.

According to Breuer, the hypnoid state represents the most important mechanism for the development of hysterical diseases and is based on the process of hypnoid formation.

Formation of hysterical symptoms

Ideas entered in hypnoid states tend to unite and thus split off together against everyday consciousness.

  1. A psycho-vegetative switch has the effect that registered ideas (representations, engrams) remain separated from the rest of the consciousness
  2. Several representative offices form close associative connections with one another
  3. A secondary consciousness arises , associatively isolated from the primary consciousness
  4. The person is alternately dominated in experience and behavior by their various states of consciousness . This corresponds to the clinical picture of hysteria.

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  • Sigmund Freud / Josef Breuer: Studies on Hysteria. Franz Deuticke, Leipzig + Vienna 1895. Reprint: 6th edition. Fischer, Frankfurt a. M. 1991. ISBN 3596104467