Hypnotic, transitional hypnosis

This is another "half-way house" technique by which the doctor changes his patient's normal sleep into hypnotic sleep. The doctor should first tell the patient before nightfall what he proposes to do. Then when the patient is normally asleep, the doctor begins gentle suggestions of this kind: "You can hear me—I'm going to lift up your arm—tell me when you can hear me", and so on. The moment the patient replies to him, the battle is won, and the doctor can proceed to whatever therapeutic suggestions he wishes to make.

Hypnotic, transitional hypnosis