Contemporary Hypnosis Research

by Fromm, Erika; Nash, Michael R.

• ISBN13: 9780898628937
• ISBN10: 0898628938
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1992-08-12
• Publisher: The Guilford Press

Summary

A most up-to-date survey of the current status of hypnosis.

Author Biography

Erika Fromm, Ph.D.is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and the Clinical Editor of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Erika Fromm is Past President of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the American Board of Psychological Hypnosis, and the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychological Hypnosis. An honorary member of the Netherlands Society of Hypnosis, she has also been honored with awards from the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis. She has authored more than 90 scientific papers and has coauthored or edited six books, among them the classic text on experimental hypnosis, HYPNOSIS: Developments in Research and New Perspectives, HYPNOTHERAPY AND HYPNOANALYSIS, and SELF-HYPNOSIS: The Chicago Paradigm.

Table of Contents

Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
A Conceptual Analysis of Hypnotic Responsiveness: Experience, Individual Differences, and Context	p. 3
Two Hundred Years of Hypnosis Research: Questions Resolved? Questions Unanswered!	p. 34
Current Empirically Based Theories
Dissociation and Theories of Hypnosis	p. 69
A Social-Psychological Approach to Hypnosis	p. 102
An Ego-Psychological Theory of Hypnosis	p. 131
Hypnosis, Psychopathology, and Psychological Regression	p. 149
Surveys of Broad Areas
Research Designs and Considerations	p. 173
Hypnosis as a Methodology in Psychological Research	p. 201
A Midstream View of the Neuropsychophysiology of Hypnosis: Recent Research and Future Directions	p. 227
Situational and Personality Correlates of Hypnotic Responsiveness	p. 267
The Hypnotizable Subject as Creative Problem-Solving Agent	p. 292
Hypnosis and Creativity	p. 334
The Phenomenology of Hypnosis and the Experiential Analysis Technique	p. 364
Self-Hypnosis, Personality, and the Experiential Method	p. 390
The Effects of Hypnotic Procedures on Remembering: The Experimental Findings and Their Implications for Forensic Hypnosis	p. 405
Clinical Hypnosis Research since 1986	p. 427
The Measurement of Hypnotic Ability	p. 459
References	p. 491
Author Index	p. 575
Subject Index	p. 585
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