Jan 17, 2016
Dr. Lozanov
from Sofia physician psychotherapist brain-researcher
Psychotherapeutic work Lozanov studied people with
hypermnesia: Yogi: could repeat 1000
phrases from memory after hearing them once.
Maori Chief could recite the history of his tribes over 45 generations.
Result: hypermnesia is the result of a suggestive setup directed to the memory potential.
Suggestology Research Institute suggestology
investigates primarily the ordinary and the more less forms of suggestion (authority, motivation,…)
Suggestion is one of the main factors in the most suitable psychotherapeutic methods for the treatment of neurosis.
THE CLINICAL APPROACH
Reasons for hypermnesia
Role of suggestions New research
subject: Suggestology
Experiments with hypnosis 1
Psychotherapy First experiments in
1955 Anaesthetizing by
suggestion in a normal waking state
Experiments with hypnosis 2
All earlier stages of individual developement are preserved in the unconscious mental activity.
Consequences: Infantilisation – state of
mind
Hypermnesia through suggestion Hypermnesia can be
obtained not only in a state of hypnosis but also in a normal wakening state, since suggestion is an increasing universal phenomenon in human psychical activity.
Conclusion from experiments
Hypermnesia is the result mainly of a suggestive setup directed toward the memory potential
Suggestopedia Focus: suggestion in the
process of teaching and learning
Teachers exert an influence on the students not only with what they say, but also with the intonation of their voices, their smiles. Gestures, clothes, movements and their whole atitude toward the pupils.
Suggestopedia
Started purely as a psychological experiment aimed at increasing memory capacities in the educational process.
It is applied only in a normal waking state
Experiments with suggestive hypermnesia Memorizing
experiments in 1965 result high
memorization experimental group control group
(conventional method)
First variant Step 1 Lesson was a thematic
dialogue conversation) – 100 new lexical units
1) Decivering the new material
with help of translation,Repetitionfull explanation of the
lexical grammatical units
Step 2
2) Active Session The dialogue was read with the „intonational swing“ –
Each word or phrase was read a few times:
Tri-step intonationdeclaratively (heightened)quietly (significant way)authoritatvely (in a sure way)
Step 3
3) Passive session Teacher read the dialogue artistically to a background music (1971 1st time)
Music created a kind of monotony, a state of full relaxation (teacher as well as students(contradiction with the theory of suggestology
Step 44) Activation The students worked to
learn the dialogue in various ways:
through reading conversation in pairs discourses, games songs listening to texts
Only part of the text was activated; every other day a new dialogue was studied