Definitions of Hypnosis and Hypnotizability and their Relation to Suggestion and Suggestibility: A Consensus StatementShow others and affiliations
2011 (English)In: Contemporary Hypnosis & Integrative Therapy, ISSN 2049-2146, Vol. 28, no 2, p. 107-115Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This article reports a consensus that was reached at an Advanced Workshop in Experimental Hypnosis held as part of the joint annual conference of the British Society of Medical and Dental Hypnosis (BSMDH) and the British Society of Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis (BSECH). The unanimous consensus was that conventional definitions of hypnosis and hypnotizability are logically inconsistent and that at least one of them needed to be changed. Participants were divided between the alternatives of (1) broadening the operational definition of hypnosis so as to include responding to so-called waking suggestion and (2) limiting the term 'hypnotizability' to the effects of administering a hypnotic induction.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Crown House Publishing , 2011. Vol. 28, no 2, p. 107-115
Keywords [en]
suggestion, suggestibility, hypnosis, hypnotizablity
National Category
Natural Sciences
Research subject
Natural sciences; Consciousness and Cognitive Neuroscience
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:his:diva-5671Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84873092986OAI: oai:DiVA.org:his-5671DiVA, id: diva2:513470
2012-04-022012-04-022020-07-06Bibliographically approved