Dr. John Kappas (1925–2002) identified three different types
of suggestibility in his lifetime that have improved hypnosis:
1.
Emotional Suggestibility A suggestible behavior
characterized by a high degree of responsiveness to inferred suggestions that
affect emotions and restrict physical body responses; usually associated with
hypnoidal depth. Thus the emotional suggestible learns more by inference than
by direct, literal suggestions.
2.
Physical Suggestibility A suggestible behavior
characterized by a high degree of responsiveness to literal suggestions
affecting the body, and restriction of emotional responses; usually associated
with cataleptic stages or deeper.
3.
Intellectual Suggestibility The type of hypnotic
suggestibility in which a subject fears being controlled by the operator and is
constantly trying to analyze, reject or rationalize everything the operator
says. With this type of subject the operator must give logical explanations for
every suggestion and must allow the subject to feel that he is doing the
hypnotizing himself.
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