Hysteria+-+basics

**__Inducing Hysteria and Hypnosis:__** **__Techniques__** **__A Brief Encyclopedia__** **__Techniques of Hypnosis__**  **__Inducing Deliria__**  **__Imposing a Form on Delirious Hysterical Thought__**  **__Theater, Hysteria and Therapeutic Techniques__**
 * Establishing “transference”
 * In the Freudian sense, “transference was the repetition in the sense of a theatrical rehearsal”
 * “Provocation through tenderness”
 * Manipulation of physical contact—
 * “kneading, friction, or simple pressure”
 * Physical suggestion
 * “It is enough to abruptly place the hand on her head, and she falls as if struck by lightening” (187)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Surprise
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Abrupt noises
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tuning forks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Flashes of light
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“hyperesthesia” of the sense of sight
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Metallotherapy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Injecting with the essence of absinthe
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Ether
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Amyl Nitrate (Truth Serum!)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Induces “loquacity, involuntary confidences, hallucinations, various modification of the physiognomy, etc.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Chloroform
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Causes hystero-epileptic attacks
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Tobacco Smoke (!)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Esther”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A concoction of herbs
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Subjugation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Persuaded that I had a particular power over her, she would fall into hypnosis no matter where she encountered me.” (220)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Fascination
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“In this state of fascination, the hypnotized subject belongs absolutely to the fascinator and violently rejects anyone who tries to intervene, unless this person himself performs the necessary maneuvers, and, as the specialists say, //takes the gaze// of the subject with his eyes, beginning the fascination for himself.” (220)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Taking the gaze
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Adoration/Seduction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Augustine has affectionate feelings for the experimenter, whoever he may be.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“An aggravated dialectic of transference—a most serious seduction.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Arousal
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Transference
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Suggestion (Physical and Verbal)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Suggestion through Gesture”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Improvisation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Torticollis (physical suggestion through massage and manipulation of the muscles, particularly the neck)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">If you touch the muscle…it will answer, it will contract. The same is true of tendons and nerves.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Catalepsy/Lethargy/Somnamblism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“In a subject plunged into catalepsy, the eyes remain open, and the physiognomy and gestures are already in constant and reversible relations of influence; in lethargy, the eyes close; in somnambulism, writes Charcot, invoking Azam, ‘the muscular sense…seems…to replace sight.” (196)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Catalepsy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“A nervous condition characterized by muscular rigidity and fixity of posture regardless of external stimuli, as well as decreased sensitivity to pain.”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lethargy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“neuromuscular hyper-excitability” (196)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“the muscular sense seems to replace sight” (196)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Somnambulism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Hallucination
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Display
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“It is like a symbolic dance, almost a trance ritual”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Captivation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Eye contact
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Solicitation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Reprovoking attacks as a means of therapy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Reenactment
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Reinventing the time of trauma
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Restaging the first scene
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Producing tableaus
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Reprovoking attacks as a means of therapy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Images, animals, locations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The masochistic fantasy of the doctor/patient relationship
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Charcot was a dramaturge!
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Theater of the Return of Memory”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“playing all roles”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Acting bodies are the least sensitive, the least affected within themselves”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“Living dreams”
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Sideshow hypnotism
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Often used before theatrical performances
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Dark Stage
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Fear of what’s inside a woman’s body
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Spiritual questions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Lightness vs. Darkness
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Duchenne’s studies of the “orthography of physiognomy in motion.” (199)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“He was seeking the law of relation between “the soul” and its “expression” in the most infinitesimal variations of “muscular action” (199)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Created synoptic tables of facial expression
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">A “syntactical catalog of the face” (199)
 * <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">“He believed that only by electroshock and in the setting of elaborately constructed theater pieces featuring gestures and accessory symbols could he faithfully depict the complex combinatory expressions resulting from conflicting emotions and ambivalent sentiments.” (http://www.ask.com/wiki/Guillaume_Duchenne)

//She staggers, he assists her toward a chair, She catches her breath with difficulty.//

Breathlessness and breatheing