American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, January 1st, 2007
Kirsch, Mazzoni, and Montgomery's (in press) article musters an ardent defense of the hypothesis that hypnotic inductions produce relatively small increases in suggestibility, and that subjective changes and hypnotic phenomena can be produced by imaginative suggestions alone, without the induction of hypnosis. As the authors point out, this argument is consistent with studies conducted in a variety of laboratories over a span of more than 70 years.
Nevertheless, if true to form, as Kirsch et al. (in press) anticipate, critics who subscribe to the hypothesis that hypnosis is a trance or altere...
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