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Points of discussion
• Brief biography of late Prof. M. U. Ahmed, the architect of
Medistic Psychotherapy;
• Major works of Prof. M. U. Ahmed;
• Hypnotism as defined in Western literature;
• Medism as neo-oriental hypnotism;
• Roots of Medism: Oriental mysticism;
• Yogi philosophy and Sufism;
• Stages of Medism;
• Therapeutic techniques of Medistic Psychotherapy;
• Postulates of Medistic Psychotherapy;
• Efficacy of Medistic therapeutics;
• End note.
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Brief biography of late Prof. M. U. Ahmed
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Major works of Prof. M. U. Ahmed
• How to develop strong personality
• Child guidance techniques
• Mental health of children
• Perceptual threshold
• Psychology during war & peace
• Psychological aspects of national character-pattern
• Mental health & education
• Choosing the right profession and eventual success in a job
• Problem parents create problem children: Parental harshness,
over-indulgence & nervousness (radio interviews)
• Drug & drink addiction: how to get out of it
• Socio-cultural changes in Bangladesh
• Development of Medistic Psychotherapy
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Origin of Medistic Psychotherapy
• Occidental hypnotism
• Oriental mysticism
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Hypnotism as defined in Western literature
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Characteristics & Definition of Medism
• Increased “suggestibility”
• State of meditation
• Therapeutic function
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Roots of Medism: Oriental mysticism
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Yogi philosophy
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Sufism: Other branch of Oriental Mysticism
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Nature of Medism
• Medism attempted to explain the nature of hypnosis in
terms of meditation by linking up hypnotism with
mysticism;
• As the mystics meditate on God through a process of
auto-hypnotism, hypnotee meditates on the divine
qualities slumbering within his „spiritual self‟; brought
to light through the intermediary of the hypnotist;
• Mystics require a „pir‟ or „guru‟ while a hypnotee
requires a hypnotist who plays the role of his spiritual
leader;
• Medism, therefore, is not the process of domination but
of liberation, liberating the spiritual potentials of the
individual.
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Stages of Medism
• Pre-medistic: Preparatory period
• Medistic: State of meditation; subject
remains unaware of the surroundings
• Hyper-medistic: Stage of „Samadhi‟ or
„Baqa‟
• Post-medistic: Back to the awareness
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Pre-medistic stage
• Stage in which abstraction (pratyahara) and
concentration (Tawajjuh) facilitate meditation
(Dhyana or Muraqabat);
• Subject is more or less aware of his surroundings;
• Subject starts breathing slowly and deeply;
• Subject feels drowsy and lethargic;
• Subject loses control over his muscles and nerves;
• Subject is able to report his experiences during
this period.
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Medistic stage
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Hyper-medistic stage
• Highest stage that a Mystic aspires to achieve;
• „Subject‟ becomes „object‟ and „knower‟ becomes
„known‟;
• Regress back to his super-conscious spiritual self;
• Subjects become aware of his innate potentialities
slumbering within him;
• Transcends the limitations of „space‟ and „time‟;
• Subject‟s „en rapport‟ with the Hypnotist slightly
slackened;
• Becomes more or less independent of the Hypnotist;
• Totally forget the „inter-medistic experiences‟.
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Post-medistic stage
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Therapeutic techniques
• Trying to understand the real problem of the patient, by
framing tentative hypotheses, successively;
• Producing relaxation in the patient, by requesting him to lie
down on a bed, or sofa, to breathe slowly, to close eyes, and
finally to concentrate on the meeting-point of the eye-brows of
his closed eyes (progressive muscle relaxation technique is
used);
• Request the patient to meditate on „fine health‟ and „well-being‟
while concentrating;
• Continue to apply hetero-suggestion on the patient in a well
modulated and confident tone;
• Finally, compose some appropriate verses (always positive)
for his practice of „auto-suggestion‟ after going back home.
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Postulates of Medistic Psychotherapy
• Every one is born with a „Super-conscious
Spiritual Self‟ which is „pure‟ and „free‟ from
disease;
• Every one develops his „empirical self‟ after birth
through experience;
• „Empirical self‟ is the breeding ground of different
types of diseases;
• “Unconscious mind‟ creates diseases within the
empirical self in order to escape from unpleasant
situations and responsibilities of life;
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Postulates
• „Empirical self‟ comprehends „conscious‟, „pre-
conscious‟ and „unconscious‟ states of self, but
„spiritual self‟ acts as the controlling power behind
the „empirical self‟;
• „Spiritual self‟ acts as the reservoir of „healing
energy‟ that is utilized by the M Psychotherapists
for a recovery from diseases;
• M Psychotherapy is „patient-cum-therapist-
centered‟. Both patient and therapist alternatively
play „active‟ and „passive‟ roles;
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Postulates
• M Psychotherapy is „directive‟ and „psycho-
synthetic‟ rather than „psycho-analytic‟;
• M Psychotherapy is a „oriental-culture
bound‟ rather than a „culture-free‟
therapeutic technique;
• While analyzing dreams of the patient, M
Psychotherapist interprets the dream
symbols „as a whole‟, not in a piece-meal
fashion, like the Freudians.
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Efficacy of Medistic therapeutics
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Thank you all
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