PSYCHOLOGY OF EMOTIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Posthypnotic amnesia refers to subjects’ difficulty in remembering, after hypnosis, the events and experiences that transpired while they were hypnotized.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hypnotic amnesia is a functional dissociation from awareness during which information from specific neural processes is unavailable to consciousness.

Detailed explanation-3: -Posthypnotic amnesia (PHA) is a disruption in memory for the events of hypnosis, induced and cancelled by suggestion, and observed primarily in highly hypnotizable subjects.

Detailed explanation-4: -Hypnosis is a trance-like state in which a person experiences heightened suggestibility. When a person is in this altered state of perception, it is thought that he or she can be guided to experience a reduction in pain, alter ineffective cognitions or beliefs, or remember forgotten memories, among other things.