Hypnosis and the enhancement of visual imagery

Wc, Coe; Rl, St Jean; Jm, Burger

doi:10.1080/00207148008409848

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“…Then they will be "hypnotized" and take their "hypnotic" VCI (this group is the equivalent of the Waking-First group in Coe et al, 1980, except that the present experiment will not use "real" hypnosis). In Group 2 the subjects will not expect to be hypnotized until after they have taken the waking VCI.…”

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“…Because Coe et al (1980) found that their subjects who had a medium or high degree of hypnotic susceptibility (5-12 on the SHSS-C) produced significantly higher scores on both VCI administrations than the subjects who had a low degree of hypnotic susceptibility (0-4 on the SHSS-C), this study will use only the data from subjects who receive at least a 41 on the HGSHS-A in the main data analyses. This will give some assurance that the differences in the VCI scores will be less affected by the level of hypnotic susceptibility of the 1 Although in Coe et al (1980) the 6 items from the SHSS-C used to assess hypnotic susceptibility were transformed to a "12" point scale, and the HGSHS-A (used in the present experiment) used a 13 point scale (so they can be considered comparable), this experiment used different susceptibility ranges for low and medium (i.e., 0-3 is low and 4-8 is medium) because only some evidence of ability to produce vivid visual images was needed (this ability did not need to be great), and because the number of subjects was limited. subjects, and that the subjects used in the main data analyses will be able to produce reasonably vivid visual images.…”

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“…These results are discussed in relation to the Behavioral and Phenomenological theories, especially the specific studies this experiment was based on (Coe et al, 1980;Lazarus, 1973). Some suggestions for further research are also made.…”

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“…This thesis was formulated to examine why the WakingFi rst Condition in Coe et al (1980) was the only group in their first experiment that had significantly different VCI scores for the waking and hypnotic administrations and to…”

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“…. Coe, St. Jean, and Burger (1980 This lack of understanding may be due, partly, to the way the study of hypnosis has been approached. There are two major theoretical orientations in hypnosis research according to Fromm and Shor (1972): Phenomenological and…”

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The effect of subject expectations of "hypnosis" upon the vividness of visual imagery

Nilsson¹

2000

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There is no consensus of how hypnosis works. The two major theorists in hypnosis research, the Phenomenologists and the Behaviorists, disagree on this issue. ThePhenomenologists consider individual talent and change of the state of consciousness the key to how hypnosis works.The Behaviorists consider the social situation and the roles taken by the experimenter and subject, especially the 2 subject's expectations of hypnosis, the mainspring of the hypnotic process. These results are discussed in relation to the Behavioral and Phenomenological theories, especially the specific studies this experiment was based on (Coe et al., 1980;Lazarus, 1973). Some suggestions for further research are also made.

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Hypnotic phenomena and altered states of consciousness: a multilevel framework of description and explanation

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2003

Contemporary Hypnosis

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There is currently agreement that, in addition to the changes in external behaviour, suggestions presented in a hypnotic context may give rise to changes in subjective experience. Ye t, there is no general agreement about the theoretical framework within which these changes in experience should be explained. Though different theories about hypnosis overlap in many respects, there is still disagreement on whether reference to a specific internal state of the individual is necessary in order to explain these changes. We place the explanatory task in the context of a multilevel framework of explanation, which reveals that the disagreement between the 'state' and 'nonstate' view is about the level of description at which the phenomenon 'hypnosis' should be conceptualized. We propose a novel approach using the multilevel explanation which helps to formulate empirically testable hypotheses about the nature of hypnosis. We will outline the basic elements of such an approach and hope that our proposition will help hypnosis research to integrate with the multidisciplinary research on other phenomena of consciousness.

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