Table of Contents

I: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives; 1: Underlying Theoretical Issues: An Introduction; 2: The Fundamental Problem in Hypnosis Research as Viewed from Historic Perspectives; II: New Theories; 3: Divided Consciousness in Hypnosis: The Implications of the Hidden Observer; 4: The Nature of Hypnosis and Other Altered States of Consciousness: An Ego Psychological Theory 1; 5: A Phenomonological Method for the Measurement of Variables Important to an Understanding of the Nature of Hypnosis; III: Surveys of Broad Areas; 6: Hypnosis and Sleep: Techniques for Exploring Cognitive Activity During Sleep; 7: Hypnosis as a Research Method; 8: Suggested (”Hypnotic”) Behavior: The Trance Paradigm Versus an Alternative Paradigm; 9: Hypnosis and Psychophysiological Outcomes; 10: Hypnotic Amnesia; 11: Hypnosis and Creativity: A Theoretical and Empirical Rapprochement; 12: Hypnosis and the Processes of Imagination; IV: Lines of Individual Research; 13: The Effects of Neutral Hypnosis on Conditioned Responses: Implications for Hypnosis as Relaxation; 14: Hypnotic Programming Techniques in Psychological Experiments; 15: Imaginative and Sensory—Affective Involvements: in Everyday Life and in Hypnosis; 16: On the Simulating Subject as a Quasi’Control Group in Hypnosis Research: What, Why, and How; 17: Measuring the Depth of an Altered State of Consciousness, with Particular Reference to Self-Report Scales of Hypnotic Depth; V: Individual Research within Specific Areas; 18: Humanistic Aspects of Hypnotic Communication; 19: Hypnosis and Adaptive Regression: An Ego-Psychological Inquiry 1; 20: The Wish to Cooperate and the Temptation to Submit: The Hypnotized Subject’s Dilemma; 21: Hypnosis as a Means of Studying Cognitive and Behavioral Control; VI: Anticipations for Future Research; 22: Quo Vadis Hypnosis? Predictions of Future Trends in Hypnosis Research

About the Author

Ronald E. Shor

Reviews

-We are told that hypnosis has undergone unprecedented expansion in the last two decades in the U.S.A., both in research and practice, and that this survey is intended for the student and research worker... [T]he scientific method as described in this book has been successfully applied both in England and in the U.S.A. to the study of hypnosis itself... We owe... a debt of gratitude to the editors of this book for their excellent account of this development in the U.S.A.- --A. Spencer Paterson, British Medical Journal Supplement

"We are told that hypnosis has undergone unprecedented expansion in the last two decades in the U.S.A., both in research and practice, and that this survey is intended for the student and research worker... [T]he scientific method as described in this book has been successfully applied both in England and in the U.S.A. to the study of hypnosis itself... We owe... a debt of gratitude to the editors of this book for their excellent account of this development in the U.S.A." --A. Spencer Paterson, British Medical Journal Supplement

"We are told that hypnosis has undergone unprecedented expansion in the last two decades in the U.S.A., both in research and practice, and that this survey is intended for the student and research worker... [T]he scientific method as described in this book has been successfully applied both in England and in the U.S.A. to the study of hypnosis itself... We owe... a debt of gratitude to the editors of this book for their excellent account of this development in the U.S.A." --A. Spencer Paterson, British Medical Journal Supplement