Hypnosis creates multiple personality: Myth or reality?

Braun, Bennett G.

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“…This latter prediction is in accord with past evidence that hypnosis can spontaneously and vividly resurrect repressed images [21][22][23][24][25][26], even repressed 'multiple personalities' [27][28][29], in abnormal subjects. It is also in accord with Kunzendorf's [18] and Hilgard's [30] findings: that normal imagers who are hypnotized do not monitor the fact that they are imaging.…”

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Repression as the Monitoring and Censoring of Images: An Empirical Study

Kunzendorf

1985

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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The results of the present research show, first, that repressers' waking images are less vivid than sensitizers' waking images. They show, also, that hypnosis increases the vividness of repressers' images, but not the vividness of sensitizers' images. Such results were predicted by the theory of cognitive-state monitoring and its corollary, that wakeful image-monitoring plays a role in repressing potentially traumatic images.

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Repression as the Monitoring and Censoring of Images: An Empirical Study

Kunzendorf

1985

Imagination, Cognition and Personality

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“…Others (Carlson and Putnam, 1989;Spiegel et af., 1986) suggest that hypnotizability and pathological dissociation share overlapping phenomena but are not necessarily identical processes. Claims that multiple personality disorder can be induced in suggestible individuals by hypnosis, however, have been demonstrated to be false (Braun, 1984; Greaves, 1980; Kluft, 1982).…”

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Pierre Janet and modern views of dissociation

Putnam

1989

J Trauma Stress

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“…This would suggest that the clinical features of MPD are not created by hypnosis. Other than this one study, the view that MPD is not an artifact of hypnosis is based largely on clinical experience (Braun, 1984;Kluft, 1982;Kluft, 1987). To provide further, more comprehensive data on the effects of hypnosis on the features of MPD, we compared 38 MPD patients who were not hypnotized during assessment or treatment to 57 who were hypnotized both before and after diagnosis.…”

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Effects of Hypnosis on the Features of Multiple Personality Disorder

Ross

Norton

1989

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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The authors compared 57 patients with multiple personality disorder (MPD) who had been hypnotized both before and after diagnosis to 38 patients who had not been hypnotized during assessment or treatment. The two groups did not differ on the diagnostic criteria for MPD or in number of personalities. Hypnosis therefore does not have a gross distorting effect on the features of the disorder. Hypnosis may, however, affect the recall of sexual and physical abuse and the manifestation of certain types of alter personality. These include child personalities, personalities of different age, sex, or race, and protectors. The authors hypothesize that the hypnotized group may require hypnosis for access of more traumatic memories held by child personalities.

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Hypnosis creates multiple personality: Myth or reality?

Cited by 69 publications

References 18 publications

Repression as the Monitoring and Censoring of Images: An Empirical Study

Repression as the Monitoring and Censoring of Images: An Empirical Study

Pierre Janet and modern views of dissociation

Effects of Hypnosis on the Features of Multiple Personality Disorder

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