Although research and practice in hypnosis has seen unprecedented
expansion, there has been a definite lack of inclusive and
comprehensive surveys to aid the student and researcher. This
collection of original chapters written by leading experimental
investigators is the first work to offer a current state-of-the-art
in hypnosis research. A compendium of the historical background,
theories, issues, and trends in hypnosis, this volume represents
all major experimental viewpoints while providing a virtual "who's
who" in the field of hypnosis.
The first two chapters (written by the editors) establish the
current theoretical base of the field and review the historical
background. Seventeen contributions focus directly on key aspects
of present day hypnosis research. These contributions are organized
as surveys of broad topic areas, descriptions in depth of
individual investigator's programmatic lines of research, and
reports on research within specific areas, especially those
representing new viewpoints and holding promise for programmatic
development. A final chapter develops questions for future
research.
Offering an inclusive survey of the field from its historical
inceptions to its current and predictive state, this book presents
many new ideas while updating established positions in research and
theory. The vital areas covered in connection with hypnosis
include: psychophysiology, creativity, dreams, imagination,
suggestibility, simulator controls, cognitive activity, and
ego-psychological theory. In addition there are chapters on
hypnosis as a research method, the measurement of altered states of
consciousness, and hypnotic programming techniques in psychological
experiments. "Hypnosis: Research Developments and Perspectives" is
written for researchers in hypnosis and clinical practitioners in
medicine and psychology. The book will serve as a basic text in all
courses in hypnosis at the graduate level.
, One man alone cannot construct an entire profession, but David
Shakow is one of the architects responsible for shaping clinical
psychology into the profession it is today. Reflecting the ideas of
a man whose name is synonymous with the field, this volume brings
together for the first time his most significant papers in this
area and presents a comprehensive, far-reaching overview of
clinical psychology addressed to all of its professionals and
students.
Dr. Shakow's forty years of influence as a clinician, training
program administrator, professor, researcher, and public servant
are profoundly reflected in these papers. They offer insight into
the work and world of the clinician, the nature of training
programs, the history and development of the profession, and the
relationship between clinical psychology and other disciplines. Not
simply a descriptive record of one man's achievements, the thinking
mirrored in this volume is pertinent, even crucial, to the future
development of the field.
The author's persistent and continuing concern for top quality in
training and practice pervades these essays, making them a unified
chronicle of the professional growth of clinical psychology and of
a master professional's ideas and involvements with the problems
and issues in his field. No clinician or student can fully
understand the nature of the field, how it came to be, and where it
is going, without reading this volume.
"David Shakow" (1901-1981) was Senior Research Psychologist at the
National Institute of Mental Health. He was Chief Psychologist and
Director of Psychological Research at the Worcester State Hospital
for eighteen years. He has taught at the University of Illinois
College of Medicine and at the University of Chicago, He was also
Chief Psychologist at the Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute and a
past president of the Division of Clinical Psychology of the
American Psychological Association as well as chairman of the
Association's Committee on Training in Clinical Psychology.
"Erika Fromm" (1909-2003) was Professor Emeritus of Psychology at
the University of Chicago; she was President of the American Board
of Psychological Hypnosis, and the Clinical Editor of the
"International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis" and
associate editor of "The Bulletin of the British Society of
Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis." She was also past president of
The American Psychological Association psychological hypnosis
division, Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, and
American Board of Psychological Hypnosis. Ronald E. Shor is
Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of New
Hampshire and Vice-Chairman of the Education and Research
Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis.
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