Atavistic regression
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Atavistic regression is a hypnosis-related concept introduced by the Australian scholar and psychiatrist Ainsley Meares in his 1960.[1]
Meares believed that hypnosis reverted the subject mentally to a younger age, switching off the higher functions of the brain and altering the subject's logic processing so that they readily accept basic/literal logic without the normal filters.
[edit] Notes
- ^ Meares (1960) was, incidentally, one of the first ever textbooks on clinical hypnosis.
[edit] References
- Meares, A., "A Dynamic Technique For The Induction Of Hypnosis", Medical Journal of Australia, Vol.I, No.18, (30 April 1955), pp.644-646.
- Meares, A., "A Note on the Motivation for Hypnosis", Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Vol.III, No.4, (October 1955), pp.222-228.
- Meares, A., "A Working Hypothesis as to the Nature of Hypnosis", Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Vol.77, (May 1957), pp.549-555.
- Meares, A., "An Atavistic Theory of Hypnosis", pp.73-103 in Kline, M.V. (ed.), The Nature of Hypnosis: Contemporary Theoretical Approaches, Transactions of the 1961 International Congress on Hypnosis, The Postgraduate Center for Psychotherapy and The Institute for Research in Hypnosis, (New York), 1962.
- Meares, A., "Atavistic Regression As A Factor In The Remission Of Cancer", Medical Journal of Australia, Vol.2 (1977), No.4, (23 July 1977), pp.132-133.
- Meares, A., A System of Medical Hypnosis, Julian Press, (New York), 1960.
- Meares, A., Hypnography: A Study in the Therapeutic Use of Hypnotic Painting, Charles C. Thomas, (Springfield), 1957.
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