Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Prologue
About the Authors
PART I: Trance: The Phenomenon and Its Measurement
Defining Hypnosis
Chapter 1. Naturally Occurring Trance Phenomena and Related Myths
Chapter 2. Formally Induced Trance Phenomena
The Hypnotic Induction Profile
Chapter 3. Rationale for a Clinical Test
Chapter 4. Administration and Scoring
PART II: The Hypnotic Induction Profile as a Diagnostic Probe
Spectrum of Hypnotizability and Personality Style
Chapter 5. The Person With the Problem: Apollonians, Odysseans, and Dionysians
Chapter 6. Review of the Literature: Hypnotizability and Personality
Nonintact Profiles: Softs and Decrements
Chapter 7. Hypnotizability and Severe Psychopathology
Chapter 8. Neurophysiology of Hypnosis
PART III: Using Hypnosis in Treatment
Principles
Chapter 9. Formulating the Problem
Chapter 10. Restructuring
Treatment Strategies: Short Term
Chapter 11. Smoking Control
Chapter 12. Eating Disorders
Chapter 13. Anxiety, Concentration, and Insomnia
Chapter 14. Phobias
Chapter 15. Pain Control
Chapter 16. Psychosomatic Disorders and Conversion Symptoms
Chapter 17. Miscellaneous Behavior Disorders
Treatment Strategies: Long Term
Chapter 18. Spectrum of Therapies
Chapter 19. The Grade 5 Syndrome: Special Considerations in Treating the Dionysian
Chapter 20. Hypnosis in the Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, and Dissociation
Epilogue
Appendix: Interpretation and Standardization of the Hypnotic Induction Profile
References
Name Index
Subject Index

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In this second edition of Trance and Treatment, the Spiegels, drawing on their combined clinical experiences and on relevant research literature, have revisited and updated their integrative framework for understanding hypnosis. They continue to stress the importance of individual differences in hypnotic responsiveness as assessed through their well-known Hypnotic Induction Profile. In numerous and remarkably wide-ranging clinical examples they illustrate their reliance on hypnotic ritual as the transactional context for personological and diagnostic assessments and for accordingly tailored interventions. Trance and Treatment is a richly documented exposition of today's arguably most encompassing and challenging trance-based model of hypnosis and hypnotic intervention. Auke Tellegen, Ph.D., University of Minnesota

About the Author

Herbert Spiegel, M.D., is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry (Emeritus) at Columbia University, College of Physicians & Surgeons, where he directed the postgraduate course in hypnosis from 1960 to 1982. Currently at Columbia, he is Special Lecturer in Psychiatry and in private practice in New York City.

David Spiegel, M.D., is the Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor in the School of Medicine, Associate Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Medical Director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center.

Reviews

An excellent source, drawing heavily upon systematic data to support its investigation into the beneficial uses of hypnosis in the treatment of psychological dysfunction, and recommended for scientific students of hypnosis, particularly those interested in applying it to mental health practices. Wisconsin Bookwatch This is the second edition of Trance and Treatment, written by the father and son leaders of the field and serving as a virtual bible of hypnosis... [T]hey cover the ins and outs of hypnosis, presenting theories, concepts, and procedures in a cogent fashion while backing up their ideas with research and findings, both their own and that of others. Psychosomatics