Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780202308562 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 672 str.

Erika Fromm; Ronald E. Shor

Opis

Although research and practice in hypnosis has seen unprecedented expansion, there has been a definite lack of inclusive and comprehensive surveys to aid the student and researcher. This collection of original chapters written by leading experimental investigators is the first work to offer a current state-of-the-art in hypnosis research. A compendium of the historical background, theories, issues, and trends in hypnosis, this volume represents all major experimental viewpoints while providing a virtual "who's who" in the field of hypnosis.The first two chapters (written by the editors) establish the current theoretical base of the field and review the historical background. Seventeen contributions focus directly on key aspects of present day hypnosis research. These contributions are organized as surveys of broad topic areas, descriptions in depth of individual investigator's programmatic lines of research, and reports on research within specific areas, especially those representing new viewpoints and holding promise for programmatic development. A final chapter develops questions for future research.Offering an inclusive survey of the field from its historical inceptions to its current and predictive state, this book presents many new ideas while updating established positions in research and theory. The vital areas covered in connection with hypnosis include: psychophysiology, creativity, dreams, imagination, suggestibility, simulator controls, cognitive activity, and ego-psychological theory. In addition there are chapters on hypnosis as a research method, the measurement of altered states of consciousness, and hypnotic programming techniques in psychological experiments. Hypnosis: Research Developments and Perspectives is written for researchers in hypnosis and clinical practitioners in medicine and psychology. The book will serve as a basic text in all courses in hypnosis at the graduate level.

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: Surveys of Broad Areas; 3: Hypnosis and Sleep: Techniques for Exploring Cognitive Activity During Sleep; 4: Hypnosis as a Research Method; 5: Suggested (Hypnotic) Behavior: The Trance Paradigm Versus an Alternative Paradigm; 6: Hypnosis and Psychophysiological Outcomes; 7: Hypnotic Amnesia; 8: Hypnosis and Creativity: A Theoretical and Empirical Rapprochement; 9: Hypnosis and the Manifestations of Imagination; III: Lines of Individual Research; 10: The Effects of Neutral Hypnosis on Conditioned Responses; 11: Hypnotic Programming Techniques in Psychological Experiments; 12: Evidence for a Developmental-Interactive Theory of Hypnotic Susceptibility; 13: On the Simulating Subject as a Quasi-Control Group in Hypnosis Research: What, Why, and How; 14: Measuring the Depth of an Altered State of Consciousness, with Particular Reference to Self-Report Scales of Hypnotic Depth; IV: Individual Researches within Specific Areas; 15: Humanistic Aspects of Hypnotic Communication; 16: Hypnosis and Adaptive Regression: An Ego-Psychological Inquiry; 17: The Contents of Hypnotic Dreams and Night Dreams: An Exercise in Method; 18: The Wish to Cooperate and the Temptation to Submit: The Hypnotized Subject's Dilemma; 19: Hypnosis and the Psychology of Cognitive and Behavioral Control; V: Anticipations for Future Research; 20: Quo Vadis Hypnosis? Predictions of Future Trends in Hypnosis Research

O autorze

Robert Shor