Contemporary Hypnosis
An International forum for the best ideas, theories, research findings and clinical reports in the field of hypnosis.
Edited by John Gruzelier, Goldsmith College, London, UK
Contemporary Hypnosis is published four times a year and provides a forum for the best ideas, theories, research findings and clinical reports from internationally recognised contributors to the field of hypnosis.
It features major research papers, peer discussion commentaries, brief reports, clinical reports, book reviews, conference proceedings and abstracts of current literature. It is essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary research, ideas and clinical practice in the field of hypnosis.
Contemporary Hypnosis is the official publication of the British Society of Clinical and Academic Hypnosis.
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Papers Published Over The Past 5 Years Include:
Mindfulness, dissociation, EMDR and the anterior congulate cortex: a hypothesis
Frank M Corrigan
Hypnosis Treatment of Sleeping Problems in Children Experiencing Loss
Peter Hawkins and Nikitas Polemikos
Self-hypnosis tapes for anxious cancer patients: an evaluation using personalised emotional index (PEI) diary data
Tannis M Laidlaw and Michael J Willett
Hypnosis in the treatment of a case of dissociative amnesia for a 12-year period
Marcia Degun-Mather
Remembering and forgetting autobiographical events: instrumental uses of hypnosis
Amanda J. Barnier
A critical evaluation of the relationship between sustained attentional abilities and hypnotic susceptibility
Graham A Jamieson and Peter W Sheehan
Hypnotic mirrors and phantom pain: a single case study
David A Oakley and Peter W Halligan
Hypnosis in post-abortion distress: an experimental case study
Valerie J Walters and David A Oakley
A theory based on principles of conditioning and inhibition
Alfred A Barrios
The importance of fantasy-proneness in dissociation: a replication
Ronald J Pekala, Frank Angelini and V K Kumar
Reaction time as a predictor of imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability
Wayne Braffman and Irving Kirsch
Source locations of EEG frequency bands during hypnotic arm levitation: a pilot study
Dietrich Lehmann, Pascal Faber, Toshiaki Isotani and Pascal Wohlgemuth
Augmenting intravenous sedation with hypnosis, a controlled retrospective study
Robert Dyas
Indirect ego-strengthening in treating PTSD in immigrants from Central America
George Gafner and Sonja Benson
Efficacy of clinical hypnosis in the enhancement of quality of life of terminally ill cancer patients
Christina Liossi and Paul White
The 'story-in-a-story' technique
Schlomo Mendlovic and Adiel Doron
The effects of absorption and reduced critical thought on suggestibility in an hypnotic context
Richard J Brown, Elena Antonova, Arun Langley and David A Oakley
Self-hypnosis and exam stress: comparing immune and relaxation-related imagery for influences on immunity, health and mood
John Gruzelier, Jonathan Levy, John Williams and Don Henderson
Hypnotic time perceptions: busy beaver or tardy timekeeper?
Peter L N Naish
Fear of injections: the value of hypnosis in facilitating clinical treatment
David Y Medd
The value of hypnosis in the treatment of PTSD with dissociative fugues in a war veteran
Marcia Degun-Mather
Intrusive thoughts and hypnotizability
Richard A Bryant and Arianna Idey
Factors influencing the illusion of warmth
V A Gheorghin, E Koch, H Fialkovski, W Pieper and G Molz
Hypnotic susceptibility is positively related to a subset of schizotypy items
Graham a Jamieson and John H Gruzelier
Indexing the relationship between self-hypnosis and hetero-hypnosis
Helen Bibby, Kevin M McConky and Debbie Lim
On the physiological redefinition of hypnosis: A reply to Gruzelier
Graham F Wagstaff
Unwanted effects of hypnosis: A review of the evidence and its implications
John Gruzelier
Can hypnosis cause madness?
Graham F Wagstaff
Madness and hypnosis
Richard Bentall
The alleged dangers of stage hypnosis
Michael Heap
The systematic study of negative post-hypnotic effects: Research hypnosis, clinical hypnosis and stage hypnosis
Steven Jay Lynn, Eric Myer and James Mackillop
All the world's a stage
Frank J Vingoe
Hypnosis and madness: Identifying the issues
Graham F Wagstaff
A legal case of a man complaining of an extraordinary sexual disorder following stage hypnosis
Michael Heap
Redefining hypnosis: Theory, methods and integration
John Gruzelier
Clinical hypnosis as an adjunct to assessment and therapy with people with learning disabilities
Jamie G H Hacker Hughes
Hypnotic hallucinations: Towards a biology of epistemology
Erik Woody and Henry Szechtman
Cognitive models and biology of auditory hallucinations
Sukhi Shergill and Anthony David
Hypnosis and consciousness: A structural model
David A Oakley
Correlates of hypnotizability: The first empirical study
Irving Kirsch and Wayne Braffman
The use of hypnosis for a patient with chronic pain
Margaret A Jack
Hypnosis for liposuction surgery: A clinical review and guide for hypnotic dialogue
Samuel A Botta
Hypnosis: a mature view
Theodore Xenophon Barber
Three dimensions of hypnosis or multiple routes to suggested responding?
Richard J Brown
Culture and psychopathology: The hidden dimensions in TX Barber's theory
Etzel Cardena
Deconstructing hypnosis: A generative approach to theroy and research
John F Chaves
Rapprochment at the millennium: A historically oriented commentary on TX Barber's 'A comprehensive three-dimensional theory of hypnosis'
Michael J Diamond
Clearing the decks again?
Alan Gould
Hypnosis: Three dimensions, one theory?
Vernon H Gregg
High hypnotizability: Types and dimensions
Michael Heap
The varieties of hypnotic experience
Stanley Krippner
An evaluation of Barber's three-dimensional theory of hypnosis: Promise and pitfalls
Steven Jay Lynn, Scott Lilienfield and Judith Rhue
Hypnosis: Reinstating the state
Peter L N Naish
Multiple paths into hypnosis for the millennium
Frank J Vingoe
The amnesia-prone syndrome: Brain state or cultural role?
Graham F Wagstaff
The quest for hypnosis: What is it?
John G Watkins
The mostly positive set on a new view of hypnosis
Erik Woody and Pamela Sadler
The essence and mechanism of superb hypnotic performances
T X Barber
Experiencing and testing hypnotic anaesthesia
Kevin M McConkey, Gemma L Gladstone and Amanda J Barnier
Treating anxiety with self-hypnosis and relaxation
Lucy M O'Neill, Amanda J Barnier and Kevin M McConkey
Hypnosis with selected movement disorders
David Y Medd
Hypnotherapy for the unstable bladder
Nigel Smith, Vasanti D'Hooghe, Stephenie Duffin, Dawne Fitzsimmons, Chris Rippin and Gill Wilde
An Eriksonian approach to Crack cocaine addiction: A single-session intervention
Joel D Marcus
Absorption, hypnotizability and context: Non-hypnotic contexts are not all the same
Amanda J Barnier and Kevin M McConkey
Phenomenological state effects during hypnosis: A cross-validation of findings
V K Kumar, Ronald J Pekala and Michael M McCloskey
Expectancy information as a moderator of the effects of hypnosis on memory
Cheryl A Burgess and Irving Kirsch
Syntax-derived confusion in hypnosis
Shlomo Mendlovic, Adiel Doron and Avraham Hirshfield
Hypnosis and Winnicott's transitional phase
Adiel Doron and Shlomo Mendlovic
Use of hypnosis with witnesses of vehicular homicide
Elliott H Screiber and David E Schreiber
A single-case study of generalized dystonia and hypnosis, with unexpected immobility and an untoward effect
David Y Medd
Hypnosis in the alleviation of procedure related pain and distress in paediatric oncology patients
Peter J Hawkins, Christina Liossi, B W Ewart, P Hatira and V H Kosmidis
A commentary on 'Hypnosis in the alleviation of procedure related pain and distress in paediatric oncology patients'
Chrissi Hart and Barry Hart
The effect of two procedures on hypnotic susceptibility modification
Adolfo J Cangas and Marino Perez
The use of hypnosis and brief strategic therapy with a case of separation anxiety and school refusal
Dennis Roberts
Hypnosis as an adjuvant treatment in chronic paranoid schizophrenia
George Gafner and Chris Young
The semantics and physiology of hypnosis as an altered state: Towards a definition of hypnosis
Graham Wagstaff
Deconstructing and reconstructing hypnosis
Iriving Kirsch
Will the false memory debate increase acceptance of the sociocognitive model of hypnosis
Steven Jay Lynn and Rachael Fite
Using our heads: Effects of mental state and social influence on hypnosis
David Spiegel
The rhetoric and science of 'nothing but'
Erik Woody and Pamela Sadler
The hypnotic state: Semantics and pragmatics
Graham Wagstaff
When hypnosis looks like magic, remember electricity!
Phyllis Alden
Hypnotic susceptibility and holistic/emotional styles of thinking
Richard Brown and David Oakley
Hypnotizability and body image maleability in restrained and non-restrained eaters
Francisco Frasquilho, David Oakley and Davina Ross-Anderson
An investigation of the 'state-dependency' of recall during hypnotic amnesia
Caleb Henry Smith, John Morton and David Oakley
The effect of guided imagery on forearm blood flow
Joan McGuirk, David Fitzgerald, Peter Friedmann, David Oakley and Peter Salman
Emptying the habit: A case of trichotillomania
David Oakley
Facilitation of sexual pleasure via hypnosis: A case for the court
Frank Vingoe
A working model of the neurophysiology of hypnosis: A review of the evidence
John Gruzelier
The nature of hypnotic analgesia: Neurophysiological foundation and evidence
Helen J Crawford, Timothy Knebel and Jennifer McVendemia
Hypnosis and cancer: Host defences, quality oflife and survival
Leslie G Walker
Hypnotic susceptibility, or F-bias: Its relevance to eating disorders
David Oakley and Francisco Frasquilho
On the interactive nature of hypnosis: Research evidence for a social-phyciobiological model
Eva I Banyai
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