Trance on Trial

Alan W. Scheflin, LL.M. is Professor of Law at Santa Clara University Law School. Author of two previous books with three others currently in preparation, Scheflin has also written a number of articles for professional journals and law reviews. He was invited to give testimony before the United States Congress and the California Senate Committee on the Judiciary, and appeared as an expert witness on mind and behavior control in Federal District Court. Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Ph.D. is Associate Professor in the Graduate Division of Couseling Psychology and Education at Santa Clara University. Co-Director of OHANA Family Therapy Institute of San Jose and Los Altos, California, he also serves on the Clinical Faculty at Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in Menlo Park. He has authored four other books as well as numerous book chapters and journal articles.

I. INTRODUCTION.
1. The Legal Status of Hypnosis: An Overview.
II. A CLINICAL CASE.
2. Jennifer: A Case Portrait.

III. INVESTIGATIVE HYPNOSIS.
3. The Road to Admissibility
4. The Search for Safeguards.
5. The Rise and Fall of Inadmissibility.

IV. HYPNOSIS AND MEMORY.
6. Defining Hypnosis.
7. The Nature of Memory and of Hypnotically Refreshed Recall.

V. THE HYPNOTHERAPIST IN COURT.
8. Direct Examination.
9. Cross-Examination.
10. The Psychotherapist's Experience.

VI. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
11. Conclusion.