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The hidden observer is observing

The idea of the hidden observer is almost a thought experiment turned into a clinical phenomenon.

👉 In analgesic hypnosis:

The patient says: "I don't feel pain"

But if you suggest that another part of them can report it…

That "observer" appears, and does register the pain

In other words: the pain doesn't disappear → it becomes dissociated from the main conscious system

The "hidden observer" would then be experimental evidence that, even when executive consciousness is absorbed by a suggestion, other subsystems continue processing reality and can express themselves if given a channel.

With these ideas, Hilgard opened new possibilities for the treatment of trauma and phobias, which is highly relevant in clinical hypnosis.

Basically, he proposes that:

there is a part of the mind that operates in the background

and conscious identity does not exhaust everything we are

Additionally, he was a strong advocate for ethics in hypnosis:

evidence-based practice

no miracle promises

clinical responsibility

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Hidden observer

Continuing with the history of hypnosis, I came across a relatively recent figure: Ernest Hilgard, a Stanford professor (passed away in 2001).

His main contribution is the metaphor of the "hidden observer," which describes an interesting phenomenon: a person can register and store information during hypnosis without being aware of it.

This means that someone who is hypnotized may not be conscious of something (for example, pain), while another part of their mind is processing it.

From this, he developed the neo-dissociative theory (yes, because there was a dissociative theory "plain and simple" before), which proposes that the mind is composed of systems and subsystems that can operate relatively independently.

At first I thought: okay, this guy is saying the mind is a computer. Because it sounds pretty structured. But no — that dubious honor belongs more to other authors.

Hilgard's approach is different: he proposes that consciousness is not a unity, and that there are processes occurring outside the so-called executive consciousness (the one we normally feel as "me in control").

In that sense, he's closer to Sigmund Freud and his ideas about the non-conscious (though without Freud's symbolic theoretical baggage) than to the computational metaphor.

(Fun fact: Freud, by all accounts, was a pretty bad hypnotist 😂)

Hilgard did not see the mind as a computer in the strict sense (input → processing → output), but rather as an architecture of partially independent executive systems.

His neo-dissociative theory also engages with that of Pierre Janet, who proposed that hypnosis involved a division of consciousness into "fixed ideas" that operated autonomously.

Hilgard proposes that:

The mind has modules / subsystems

Normally they are integrated under an executive consciousness

But under hypnosis → that integration becomes more flexible

This gives rise to phenomena such as:

analgesia

selective amnesia

automatisms

dual registration (the conscious vs. the hidden)

💡 It's not that the mind "breaks," but rather: it reorganizes into layers with different levels of access

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