Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780202362625 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 810 str.

Erica Fromm; Ronald Shor

Opis

This thorough revision of the fi rst 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. They also provide a new conceptual framework-cognitive, ego-psychological, and phenomenological-with which to examine hypnosis. This edition is divided into six sections-Theoretical and Historical Perspectives, New Theories, Surveys of Broad Areas, Lines of Individual Research, Individual Researches within Specific Areas, and Anticipations for Future Research. The entire book was completely revised in the light of additional research since publication of the original edition. Thirteen of the twenty chapters in the first edition were updated by their authors, six so extensively that they amount to new chapters, with changes in title and order of authors in the case of coauthored chapters. Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives is intended for researchers in hypnosis and clinical practitioners in medicine and psychology. The focus, as indicated by the changed subtitle, is on developments since publication of the original editions: empirical studies, experiments with physiological indicators of hypnosis, and theoretical uses associated with use of hypnosis as a research tool. Altogether, this second edition is a valuable overall guide to an intriguing topic.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Ronald E. Shor