Hypnosis : developments in research and new perspectives /

Synopsis: This thorough revision of the first edition, updates and expands, with 25 percent new material, what was generally recognized as a major survey of contemporary scientific research in hypnosis. In this edition, also a classic, the editors include three new essays in modern hypnosis studies....

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Other Authors: Fromm, Erika, Shor, Ronald E.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick [N.J.] : AldineTransaction, [2009]
Edition:New and rev. 2nd ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to first edition
  • Preface to second edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1: Theoretical And Historical Perspectives:
  • 1: Underlying theoretical issues: an introduction / Erika Fromm and Ronald E Shor
  • 2: Fundamental problem in hypnosis research as viewed from historic perspectives / Ronald E Shor
  • Part 2: New Theories:
  • 3: Divided consciousness in hypnosis: the implications of the hidden observer / Ernest R Hilgard
  • 4: Nature of hypnosis and other altered states of consciousness: an ego psychological theory / Erika Fromm
  • 5: Phenomenological method for the measurement of variables important to an understanding of the nature of hypnosis / Ronald E Shor
  • Part 3: Surveys Of Broad Areas
  • 6: Hypnosis and sleep: techniques for exploring cognitive activity during sleep / Frederick J Evans
  • 7: Hypnosis as a research method / Eugene E Levitt and Rosalie Hennessy Chapman
  • 8: Suggested (hypnotic) behavior: the trance paradigm versus an alternative paradigm / Theodore Xenophon Barber
  • 9: Hypnosis and psychophysiological outcomes / Theodore R Sarbin and Robert W Slagle
  • 10: Hypnotic amnesia / Leslie M Cooper
  • 11: Hypnosis and creativity: a theoretical and empirical rapproachement / Patricia Greig Bowers and Kenneth S Bowers
  • 12: Hypnosis and the processes of imagination / Peter W Sheehan.
  • Part 4: Lines Of Individual Research:
  • 13: Effects of neutral hypnosis on conditioned responses: implications for hypnosis as relaxation / William E Edmonston, Jr
  • 14: Hypnotic programming techniques in psychological experiments / Gerald S Blum
  • 15: Imaginative and sensory-affective involvements in everyday life and in hypnosis / Josephine R Hilgard
  • 16: On the simulating subject as a quasi-control group in hypnosis research: what, why, and how / Martin T Orne
  • 17: Measuring the depth of an altered state of consciousness, with particular reference to self-report scales of hypnotic depth / Charles T Tart
  • Part 5: Individual Researches Within Specific Areas:
  • 18: Humanistic aspects of hypnotic communication / Peter B Field
  • 19: Hypnosis and adaptive regression: an ego-psychological inquiry / Doris Gruenewald, Erika Fromm, and Mark I Oberlander
  • 20: Wish to cooperate and the temptation to submit: the hypnotized subject's dilemma / Howard Shevrin
  • 21: Hypnosis as a means of studying cognitive and behavioral control / Christina Maslach, Philip Zimbardo, and Gary Marshall
  • Part 6: Anticipations For Future Research:
  • 22: Quo Vadis hypnosis? Predictions of future trends in hypnosis research / Erika Fromm
  • Bibliography
  • Author index
  • Subject index.