posthypnotic
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the period after hypnosis.
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(of a suggestion) made during hypnosis so as to be effective after awakening.
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He trained patients to anesthetize themselves by autohypnosis; they jabbed needles into their arms without feeling it and, by means of posthypnotic suggestion, remained indifferent to the pain even after they "awoke."
From Time Magazine Archive
The unconscious mind is a wonderfully accurate timekeeper, as posthypnotic suggestion demonstrates.
From Time Magazine Archive
But since it is witnesses' posthypnotic testimony that is most valuable to police, the Svengali squads in California and elsewhere continue to wither away.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first scenes are the best in this self-consciously "different" movie about a posthypnotic political assassination.
From Time Magazine Archive
Upon persistent questioning there is an attempt to fill in the gaps in memory by confabulation, like the effort to explain posthypnotic action.
From Sleep Walking and Moon Walking A Medico-Literary Study by Sadger, J.
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