Hypnosis: Theories, Research and Applications
Language: English
Pages: 314
ISBN: 1607413027
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This book presents new research on hypnosis, including a clinical review comparing the effectiveness of hypnotherapy to psychoanalysis and behaviour therapy. Some of the recent clinical evidence contradicting the common criticisms and misconceptions surrounding hypnotherapy are presented, providing a good indication of how to make the best use of this tool, and to provide a rational explanation for its hard-to-believe therapeutic effects. This book also describes and illustrates the use of waking hypnosis based on the Valencia Model and applied to clinical cases considered difficult and/or emergencies. Furthermore, the relationship between hypnosis and psychoanalysis is extensively reviewed. The main assumptions of the intersubjective approach and how it is used in hypnosis, through case stories, is presented as well. Finally, this book presents evidence that the neural mechanisms of hypnosis is a fundamental prerequisite for the environmental context to provide the onset of MPI (Mass Psychogenic Illness). Other topics examined in this book include the effects of hypnosis on cancer patients and its use on people with skins disorders and procedures, as well as its effect on people with chronic pain.
cortical processing. Evidence for this model of hypnotic responding requires a decrease (not an increase) in the efficiency of selective attentional control in hypnotized high susceptibles and a corresponding decrease in functional connectivity between cortical regions responsible for implementing top-down attentional control. According to Woody and Bowers hypnosis is characterized (at least in part) by dissociation between conscious volitional control implemented by the SAS and unconscious
born again as a result of such an intense heightened belief experience. The Phenomenon of Free Will Religious practitioners tell us that of course we have free will; that God gives us a choice in life, gives us the power to choose between good and evil, between happiness and misery. But then the realists point to all the miserable people in the world and say: 'Are we to believe that all these people have freely chosen to be miserable?' Is there free will or not? In order to answer this question,
had resolved his love problems and gotten married and was ordained as an Episcopal priest - a lifelong goal. On the very day he was ordained “he got the news that his follow-up x-rays showed no more evidence of cancer. His lymph nodes and lungs were completely clear. This seeming miracle occurred six months after his original diagnosis...Today, thirty three years later, Irwin is alive, well and cancer-free.” (Temoshok, 1993, p. 320 italics added). It should be pointed out that my presentation of
context-generated expectancies and the role demands of the situations labeled “hypnosis” are central elements in the socialpsychological account of hypnosis (Spanos, 1986, Coe and Sarbin, 1977; White, 1941). Research shows that the way subjects conceptualize the situation of the hypnosis session—for instance, whether they label it as “hypnosis” or as an “experiment on imagination”—has surprisingly strong influence on their (hypnotic) performance (deGroot, Gwynn and Spanos, 1988; Spanos, Gabora,
of felt trance state while hypnotizing seems to be more connected to the felt quality (especially intimacy) of the interaction, than the state of being hypnotized. The application of DIH in a hypnotic sample fulfilled the aims and requirements set at the beginning of its development: this is an easily administered, quick method which can be applied for subjects and hypnotists, both in individual and group sessions. 4. SPECIAL POSSIBILITIES OF INTERACTIONAL APPROACH OF THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL DATA