Contemporary Hypnosis Research

Erika Fromm, Ph.D.is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago and the Clinical Editor of the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, Erika Fromm is Past President of the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, the American Board of Psychological Hypnosis, and the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychological Hypnosis. An honorary member of the Netherlands Society of Hypnosis, she has also been honored with awards from the Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis. She has authored more than 90 scientific papers and has coauthored or edited six books, among them the classic text on experimental hypnosis, HYPNOSIS: Developments in Research and New Perspectives, HYPNOTHERAPY AND HYPNOANALYSIS, and SELF-HYPNOSIS: The Chicago Paradigm.

Part I: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives. Woody, Bowers, Oakman, A Conceptual Analysis of Hypnotic Responsiveness: Experience, Individual Differences, and Context. Dixon, Laurence, Two Hundred Years of Hypnosis Research: Questions Resolved? Questions Unanswered! Part II: Current Empirically Based Theories. Hilgard, Dissociation and Theories of Hypnosis. Spanos, Coe, A Social-Psychological Approach to Hypnosis. Fromm, An Ego-Psychological Theory of Hypnosis. Nash, Hypnosis, Psychopathology, and Psychological Regression. Part III: Surveys of Broad Areas. Barabasz, Barabasz, Research Designs and Considerations. Holroyd, Hypnosis as a Methodology in Psychological Research. Crawford, Gruzelier, A Midstream View of the Neuropsychophysiology of Hypnosis. Kirsch, Council, Situational and Personality Correlates of Hypnotic Responsiveness. Lynn, Sivec, The Hypnotizable Subject as Creative Problem-Solving Agent. Shames, Bowers, Hypnosis and Creativity. Sheehan, The Phenomenology of Hypnosis and the Experiential Analysis Technique. Kahn, Fromm, Self-Hypnosis, Personality, and the Experiential Method. McConkey, The Effects of Hypnotic Procedures on Remembering: The Experimental Findings and Their Implication for Forensic Hypnosis. Brown, Clinical Hypnosis Research since 1986. Perry, Nadon, Button, The Measurement of Hypnotic Ability.