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I would like to hear about some references where hypnosis has made it into pop culture with a positive message!!!
I have two examples:
Bones: TV show, it has had hypnosis featured twice by the psychologist on there. One caught a killer through recalling details, the other was a successful regression where images brought up a memory.
MASH: TV show, this helped someone get over PSTD-where the client/solider was paralyzed from fear.
In both of the examples it was exaggerated and somewhat hoaky still...but hey...Hollywood is Hollywood be it hypnosis or anything else right!!!
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Permalink Reply by Kelley Woods on -
A recent episode of one of the reality shows, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, had Tom Silver help out one of the entitled deal with her fear of flying. It was successful and she was able to jet off with her girlfriends.
Yes, I watched it. Spank me.
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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin on -
Consider yourself spanked, Kelley.
Okay, I would have watched it, too--I'm happy to see any positive portrayal of hypnosis in pop culture.
Well, almost. I have to say that the way Bones (and House and many other shows) use it kind of bugs me. There's so much to hypnosis that isn't regression, and imho, regression for fact recall is a highly questionable application of hypnosis.
Still, it's nice to not be the villain,
James
Kelley Woods said:A recent episode of one of the reality shows, The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, had Tom Silver help out one of the entitled deal with her fear of flying. It was successful and she was able to jet off with her girlfriends.
Yes, I watched it. Spank me.
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Permalink Reply by Jason Morton on -
Tiger Woods has a personal hypnotherapist & every time he plays they mention it. He also made it know that he saw his guy for cheating as a reconciliation attempt.
Matt Damon quit smoking with hypnosis. on you tube!
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Permalink Reply by Dan Gordon on -
YES! How could I forget about that youtube video? It mentions Billy Joel, Britney Spears and Drew Barrymore too.
Ellen Degeners talks about it on here show too. That video is on youtube as well.
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Permalink Reply by Dan Gordon on
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Dr Oz last month was a big one. My girlfriend also just told me about a Desperate Housewives episode too.
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Permalink Reply by Kathleen Hanover on
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There was an episode of Mythbusters where they examined hypnosis as a tool to help eyewitnesses recall details of a crime, and all three subjects were able to recall important details under hypnosis that they couldn't remember before.
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Permalink Reply by James Hazlerig - HypnosisAustin on
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I recently watched the supernatural thriller Close Your Eyes in which Goran Visjnic plays a hypnotherapist who gets recruited to help the police solve a kidnapping case.
The portrayal has some pluses and minuses. On the plus side, the hypnotist is an honest and sincere person who truly wants to help people. The hypnosis depicted is not just regression for once, and it has generally positive results (except in one notable case in the backstory). The hero actually uses hypnosis to get out of a tough situation--but in a fairly realistic way.
On the downside, there is an event in the main character's backstory that involves him removing someone's fear of swimming that results in the client drowning to death. The movie opens with the protagonist doing a fairly realistic smoking cessation--in one of the later scenes, the client is puffing on a cigarette. Sure, that's not impossible--no one is 100%--but it would have been nice to see hypnosis portrayed a bit more favorably.
After watching the movie, I complained to my wife about the part where the hypnotist caught "psychic" flashes of what his clients were seeing in their visualizations. She pointed out that I do that sometimes . . . oops.
James
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Permalink Reply by John B. Lee IV on -
Mr. Show with Bob and Dave had a regression. The findings were a bit disturbing and the subjecy matter silly (monster party songs) but hypnosis saved the day. The show itself has hypnotic qualities built in. They flow from one reality to another. It seems like a style of nested loops as they slip away from the on stage intro into these subrealities and then back their way out like they were never there.
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