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When it comes to functional blindness and the suggested split between consciousness and perception, I feel that it means that there is a significant difference between hypnotic blindness and visual conversion disorder. I feel this way because visual conversion disorder is defined in the article as, "diagnosed when either a loss or an alteration in visual functioning occurs in a way that suggests, but cannot be explained by, a physical disorder, appears to be influenced by psychological factors, and is not under voluntary control", (p. 228, Bryant & McConkey). This means that though the patient is claming to be blind, there is no clinical explanation for it. Whereas hypnotic blindness is where a given patient will, according to p. 229 of the article, appear to be clinically blind until being administered a complicated filter test. It is at this point that the patient's results will then tell us that they are able to process visual information. The strange part about this is that while the pati


ent it appearing to process the visual information they still report that they are blind and are cooperating subconsciously.

Visual conversion disorder and hypnotic blindness are related in that there is no real reason for someone with either problem to be blind. There is no knowledge of why a person with a visual conversion disorder is blind. Though they cannot control their blindness in this situation, there is still no reason as to why they are blind. In the case of someone with hypnotic blindness there is also no reason as to why they are blind. In addition to that, those with this kind of blindness will also respond to visual stimuli, all the while claiming that they are blind and merely were subconsciously able to respond to the visual stimuli. This is also how they both relate to subliminal perception.

The mechanism that I deem responsible for hypnosis-induced blindness is the escape mechanism. I believe that those that are hypnotically blind use it as a way of escaping something t

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