Hypnosis

Ronald E. Shor

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