催眠（英語：Hypnosis）是一種人類的身心狀態，涉及注意力集中（選擇性注意/選擇性注意力不集中假設，英語：selective attention/selective inattention hypothesis，縮寫作 SASI）[1]，外圍意識（英語：peripheral awareness）降低，以及對心理暗示（英語：Suggestion）的反應能力增強。[2]
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有解釋催眠和相關現象的多種理論。改變狀態（英語：Altered state）理論將催眠視為一種改變的心智或恍惚狀態（英語：Trance），以不同於普通意識狀態的意識水平為標誌。[3][4] 相比之下，非狀態（英語：non-state）理論將催眠視為一種安慰劑效應[5][6]，重新定義與治療者的互動[7]或一種富有想像力的角色扮演形式。[8][9][10]
在催眠期間，據說一個人的注意力與專注力被提升[11]，並對心理暗示的反應增加。[12] 催眠通常以催眠誘導（英語：Hypnotic induction）開始，包括一系列初步的指示和心理暗示。將催眠用於治療目的被稱為「催眠療法」，而將其用作觀眾的一種娛樂形式被稱為「舞台催眠」（英語：Stage hypnosis），這是一種心靈魔術（英語：Mentalism）。
用於疼痛管理的催眠「可能會減少大多數人的急性和慢性疼痛」。[13] 以催眠為基礎的治療大腸激躁症和更年期的療法得到了（科學）證據的支持。[14][15][16][17] 使用催眠治療其他問題產生了不同的結果，例如戒煙。[18][19][20] 使用催眠作為一種治療形式來恢復和整合幼年創傷在科學主流中存在爭議。研究表明，對個人進行催眠可能有助於形成錯誤記憶[21]，且催眠「並不能幫助人們更準確地回憶事件」。[22]
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Encyclopædia Britannica, 2004: "a special psychological state with certain physiological attributes, resembling sleep only superficially and marked by a functioning of the individual at a level of awareness other than the ordinary conscious state".
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（美國英語）. Hasan, Faysal M.; Zagarins, Sofija E.; Pischke, Karen M.; Saiyed, Shamila; Bettencourt, Ann Marie; Beal, Laura; Macys, Diane; Aurora, Sanjay; McCleary, Nancy. Hypnotherapy is more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation: Results of a randomized controlled trial. Complementary Therapies in Medicine. 2014, 22 (1): 1–8 [2021-12-22]. PMID 24559809. doi:10.1016/j.ctim.2013.12.012. （原始內容存檔於2021-12-22） （英語）. Lynn, Steven Jay; Krackow, Elisa; Loftus, Elizabeth F.; Locke, Timothy G.; Lilienfeld, Scott O. Constructing the past: problematic memory recovery techniques in psychotherapy. Lilienfeld, Scott O.; Lynn, Steven Jay; Lohr, Jeffrey M. (編). Science and pseudoscience in clinical psychology 2nd. New York: Guilford Press. 2014: 245–275. ISBN 9781462517510. OCLC 890851087.
- Hypnotherapy, by Dave Elman. (1964).
- Hypnosis for the Seriously Curious, by Kenneth Bowers. NY: W. W. Norton (1993).
- Hypnosis and Suggestion in the Treatment of Pain: A Clinical Guide, by Joseph Barber. NY: Norton (1996).
- Mind control, Research by G. Wagstaff, Dept. of Psychology, University of Liverpool
- Hypnosis, Compliance and Belief by G. Wagstaff, (1981).
- The Highly Hypnotizable Person, Michael Heap, Richard J. Brown & David A. Oakley, (2004), Routledge
- Better and Better Every Day, Emile Coue, (1960).
- Uncommon Therapy, Jay Haley（about the psychotherapeutic intervention techniques of Milton Erickson）
- Advanced Self Hypnosis, Melvin Powers, Thorsons Publishers, 1973, ISBN 0-7225-0058-0
- Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism, Georgia Byng
- Open to suggestion. The uses and abuses of hypnosis. Robert Temple, 1989, ISBN 1-85030-710-4
- Hypnosis With Friends and Lovers Freda Morris, 1979, ISBN 0-06-250600-5
- Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis William S. Kroger, M.D., 1977, ISBN 0-397-50377-6
- EBooks: The Power of Creative Visualization, Personal Transformation in 7 Weeksby Pradeep Aggarwal（頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館）.
