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Some of these are practically tautological in their reasoning for why the terms are "misused", though. For example, they criticize calling drugs "antidepressan
by LordDragonfang 4y ago
Some of these are practically tautological in their reasoning for why the terms are "misused", though.
For example, they criticize calling drugs "antidepressants" solely because it's not their "primary effect". But the term is used to describe drugs which do treat "mood disorders" (depression), and do have effects in many cases. I don't see how that's any different from how the term "anxiolytic" is used, even though that's one of the examples they contrasted it with.
Likewise, the section on "hypnotic trance" talks about how hypnosis doesn't induce a sufficiently different brain state to warrant the term, but the term was coined to describe the state the hypnosis induces, which is subjectively distinct from normal waking consciousness. And from what I've heard from those who've experienced it, it's characterized by a reduced awareness of the self, which is the defining feature of a trance, if the term can even be said to have any definition outside its uses to describe hypnosis.
- csours 4y agoHow would I find the modern, generally accepted understanding of hypnosis?