to (Estabrooks, 1957).The hypnotist will then test the subject by insisting the subjects eyes are locked closed and then dares him to open them. If the subject cannot open his eyes, the hypnotist is getting control over the unconscious mind of the subject.Contrary, according to Baker (1990), when a person is hypnotized, they are fully conscious, and “just about anyone with a modicum of common sense can hypnotize people, that is, obtain their compliance and have them follow suggestions” (Baker, 1990, p.41). We have fairly good experimental evidence indicating that hypnosis is a state of dissociation neither in the sense that persons in that state can carry on two independent mental processes more effectively than when in the non-trance state…It is true, however, that specific suggestions to that effect are able in hypnosis to make certain memories inaccessible to voluntary recall. These are, in a certain sense, dissociation of phenomena, but by no means such in the sense a dissociation into two independent “minds” once conscious and the subconscious…It seems fairly clear that the dissociation’s observed are not essential to the hypnotic state, but are always the result of direct or indirect suggestion. Accordingly, they must find their explanation in the general theory of suggestion, rather than in the theory of hypnosis as such (Hull, 1933, p. 390).From these very different conclusions, we can see that people have many different ideas and beliefs concerning hypnosis. Hypnosis, according to van der Walde (1965), seems to be more a frame of mind than of an independent state of consciousness. The hypnotic situation does nothing but help motivated subjects achieve what they want under conditions that allow this to be done safely (Baker, 1990, p. 167). According to Baker (1990), the hypnotist serves only as a transference figure. Baker (1990) states, “this is obvious, since we have...
