Hypnosis (Psychology)

A Rasch Analysis of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C

by Gérard Näring

Hypnose et fascination collective : métapsychologie des processus d’adhésion à la Scientologie – l’envers du discours psychanalytique

by Arthur MARY

Co-authored with Thierry Lamote, published in "Topique", n°112, 3/2010.

Un rapprochement quelque peu abusif tend à assimiler l’audition, psychothérapie de la Scientologie inspirée de la... more Un rapprochement quelque peu abusif tend à assimiler l’audition, psychothérapie de la Scientologie inspirée de la méthode cathartique de J. Breuer, à une variante de la cure psychanalytique. Nous montrerons comment les processus psychiques en jeu dans la Scientologie s’organisent suivant une « discursivité » à situer à l’envers du discours analytique. Malgré la technique hypnotique sur laquelle elle s’appuie, les modalités spécifiques de l’« audition » empêchent que s’initie un transfert entre l’audité et l’auditeur. Ce dispositif thérapeutique d’évacuation du transfert mis au cœur de la Scientologie induit des effets d’adhésion à la théorie et au groupe sans pour autant qu’une figure de meneur soit nécessaire. La secte fondée par L. Ron Hubbard propose ainsi un régime métapsychologique original dans lequel la fascination collective pour un tenant lieu de l’Idéal du moi se renverse en une intériorisation surmoïque (et impersonnelle) des exigences de la Scientologie. Nous montrerons comment le traitement du transfert et l’éthique qui le sous-tend distinguent le mieux la cure freudienne de la cure hubbardienne.

Wrongful links have been established between the practice of auditing, a form of psychotherapy used by the Church of Scientology inspired by the cathartic methods of J. Breuer, and psychoanalysis. This article will show how the psychological processes at play in Scientology are organised around a ‘discursivity’ which is quite the opposite to the discourse of analysis. Despite the hypnosis in which auditing is rooted, this form of therapy prevents any transference between the preclear and the auditer being established. For this form of therapy evacuates transference entirely, a factor which lies at the heart of Scientology’s aim to get adepts to adhere to a theory and the group, without any need for a leading figure. The sect founded by L. Ron Hubbard thus creates a unique metapsychological regime in which collective fascination for an instance representing the Ego Ideal becomes an impersonal and super-egoistic interiorisation of the demands of Scientology. This article explores how the management of transference and the ethics which underlie it make all the difference between Freud’s cure and Hubbard’s.

Hypnotic susceptibility in patients with conversion disorder.

by Gérard Näring

Sperimentazione sull'ipnosi potenziata con tecnica multimediale in supporto all'apprendimento ed alla riabilitazione motoria

by Rita Pizzi

Circular Poetics and the "Hypnosis of Hypnosis"

by Hillary Stephenson Keeney

Nederlandse normen voor de Rasch-versie van de Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale-versie C: SHSS-C

by Gérard Näring

Trance Techniques in the Kabbalah of Jerusalem

by Jonathan Garb

Peamim 70

Kallio et al_2011

by Jukka Hyönä

« Hypnosis: Panpsychism in Action » (2008)

by Michel Weber

« Hypnosis: Panpsychism in Action », in Michel Weber and William Desmond, Jr. (eds.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Process Thought X1 & X2, 2008, I, 395-414

Hypnosis ranks amongst the most fundamental ideas that made the Victorian age. Together with progress, creativity,... more Hypnosis ranks amongst the most fundamental ideas that made the Victorian age. Together with progress, creativity, techno-science and industrialization, evolutionism and its by-product
eugenism, and, last but not least, the emergent feminist movement, it gave a peculiar flavor to its main trait: the faith in the superiority (if not the superior rationality) of Western civilization and in its colonial duties.

Griffiths, M.D., Gillett, C.A. & Davies, P. (1989). The hypnotic suppression of conditioned electrodermal responses. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 69, 186.

by Mark Griffiths

Griffiths, M.D., Gillett, C.A. & Davies, P. (1989). An experimental investigation of ideational and exteroceptive conditioning. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 69, 494.

by Mark Griffiths

Gillett, C.A., Griffiths, M.D. & Davies, P. (1989). The hypnotic suppression of conditioned electrodermal responses. In D.Waxman, D. Pederson, I.Wilkie & P.Mellett (Eds.). Hypnosis. pp.60-66. London: Whurr Publishers.

by Mark Griffiths

Utilizing Hypnotic Language In Adventure Therapy.

by Christian Itin

Hypnotizability, Sleepiness, and Subjective Experience

by Levente Móró

Móró, L., Noreika, V., Kallio, S., & Revonsuo, A. (2011). Hypnotizability, Sleepiness, and Subjective Experience. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 59(2), 211-224. doi: 10.1080/00207144.2011.546220

The relationships between hypnotizability, sleepiness, and the subjective experience of hypnotic suggestions were... more The relationships between hypnotizability, sleepiness, and the subjective experience of hypnotic suggestions were investigated in 90 participants. Scores from the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility Form A (HGSHS:A), the Karolinska Sleepiness Scale (KSS), the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and our self-developed Questionnaire on Subjective Hypnotic Experiences (QSHE) were analyzed. Findings show that hypnotizability correlates with both habitual daytime sleepiness and instantaneous sleepiness after the hypnotic procedure. Results also indicate that subjective self-evaluation of responses to hypnotic suggestions may be a useful tool in some cases when comparing with other subjectively rated scales, such as those concerning sleepiness.

Mesmer’s ghost: A new approach to treating trauma conjures up shades of history.

by Wendy Cousins

Cousins, W. (2011) Review of the Book "When the Past is Always Present" by R.A.Ruden. PsycCRITIQUES, Vol 56(25) doi:10.1037/a0023692

Reviews the book, When the past is always present: Emotional traumatization, causes, and cures by R. A. Ruden Reviews the book, When the past is always present: Emotional traumatization, causes, and cures by R. A. Ruden

Colored Inklings: Altered States of Consciousness and Literature

by Wendy Cousins

Cousins, W. (2011). Colored inklings: Altered states of consciousness and literature. In E Cardeña, M Winkelman (Eds.), Altering Consciousness. A Multidisciplinary Perspective. Volume I. History, Culture, and the Humanities. Praeger Publishers. pp. 277-230.

The phrase "stream of consciousness" to indicate the flow of inner experience was first used by William... more The phrase "stream of consciousness" to indicate the flow of inner experience was first used by William James in Principles of Psychology (1890) yet writers throughout the ages have described the altered states of consciousness which arise when this stream is diverted from its normal courses: from the visions and dreams described by mystics in the earliest religious texts, to the modern accounts written by neuroscientists. This chapter highlights the importance of literature for the study of consciousness and describes how the development of writing affected a shift in human experience second only to the development of language itself by extending our capacity to think beyond the here and now. It then goes on to explore how authors throughout the ages have explored altered states of consciousness in their personal lives and in their literary work with particular emphasis on religious experience, drug use, hypnosis and dissociative states.

Placebos In Medicine: Knowledge, Beliefs, and Patterns of Use

by Eugene Raikhel

Origins of hypnotic rapport and transference in emotional regulation

by Todd Stark

Self-Fulfilling Prophecy and Hypnotic Response Are Not the Same Thing

by Grant Benham

Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales: Are the Mean Scores Increasing?

by Grant Benham