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List of Tables | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Foreword to the 3rd edition | |
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Introduction to the 3rd edition | |
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Foreword to the 2nd edition | |
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Introduction to the 2nd edition | |
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Foreword to the 1st edition | |
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Introduction to the 1st edition | |
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Conceptual Framework | |
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What Is Hypnosis and Can It Help? | |
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How Hypnosis Informs Clinical Practice | |
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The Clinician-Client Relationship Is the Foundation | |
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The Challenge of Negative Bias | |
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Is There Empirical Evidence That Hypnosis Really Works? | |
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Buyer Beware | |
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Broadening Perspectives | |
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Labeling Experiences | |
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Descriptions of Hypnosis | |
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Communication and Your Conceptual Framework | |
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Influence Is Inevitable | |
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Hypnosis and Positive Psychology | |
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The First Lesson: What You Focus On You Amplify In Your Awareness | |
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The Myths about Hypnosis and a Dose of Reality | |
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Setting the Stage for Hypnosis | |
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Dealing with Misinformation | |
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Finding Out What the Client Requesting Hypnosis Believes | |
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The Issue of Control | |
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The Secrets of Stage Hypnosis | |
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Responding to Misconceptions | |
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The Power to Choose | |
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What about the Other Side of the Control Issue? | |
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Fictions and Non-Fictions | |
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Misconception: Hypnosis Is a Good Thing | |
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Misconception: Hypnosis Is Caused by the Power of the Hypnotist | |
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Misconception: Only Certain Kinds of People Can Be Hypnotized | |
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What Do the Hypnotizability Statistics Mean? | |
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Frame of Reference: Andre M. Weitzenhoffer, Ph.D., M.A., SC.M., SC.B. | |
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Misconception: Anyone Who Can Be Hypnotized Must Be Weak-Minded | |
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Misconception: Once One Has Been Hypnotized, One Can No Longer Resist It | |
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Misconception: One Can Be Hypnotized to Say or Do Something Against One's Will | |
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Misconception: Being Hypnotized Can Be Hazardous to Your Health | |
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Misconception: Hypnosis Can't Harm Anyone | |
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Misconception: One Inevitably Becomes Dependent on the Hypnotist | |
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Misconception: One Can Become "Stuck" in Hypnosis | |
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Misconception: One Is Asleep or Unconscious When in Hypnosis | |
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Misconception: Hypnosis Always Involves a Ritual of Induction | |
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Misconception: Hypnosis Is Simply Relaxation | |
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Misconception: Clinical Hypnosis Is a Specific School of Therapy | |
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What about Hypnosis Scripts? | |
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Misconception: Hypnosis May Be Used to Accurately Recall Everything That has Happened to You | |
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Closure on Misconceptions | |
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Conceptualizing Hypnosis | |
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The Neodissociation Model: Hypnosis as a Dissociated State | |
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Hypnosis as a Passive or Permissive State | |
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Hypnosis and Social Role-Playing | |
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Hypnosis as a Sociocognitive Phenomenon | |
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Hypnosis as an Altered State of Consciousness | |
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The Reality-Testing View of Hypnosis | |
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The Conditioning Property of Words and Experiences | |
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Hypnosis as a Special Interactional Outcome | |
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Hypnosis as a Psychobiological Phenomenon | |
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Closure on Perspectives | |
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The Brain in Hypnosis | |
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Why Study the Brain in Hypnosis? | |
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How Is the Brain Studied? | |
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EEG Frequency Analysis: Alpha, Theta, Hemispheric Asymmetry and Neurofeedback | |
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EEG and Event-Related Potentials (ERPs) | |
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Frame of Reference: Helen J. Crawford, Ph.D. | |
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Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Studies and Hypnosis | |
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Other Neuropsychophysiological Research Findings | |
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Neuropsychophysiology is a Young Field | |
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What Does Brain Research Mean to Clinicians Using Hypnosis? | |
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Contexts of Hypnosis | |
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Stage Hypnosis | |
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Medical Hypnosis | |
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Dental Hypnosis | |
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Forensic Hypnosis | |
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Frame of Reference: William Kroger, M.D. | |
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Hypnosis in Education | |
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Hypnosis in Business | |
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Sports Hypnosis | |
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Hypnosis in Psychotherapy | |
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The Social Psychology of Human Suggestibility | |
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The Illusion of the Invisible Clinician | |
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The Influence of Advertising | |
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Therapy, Influence, and Advertising | |
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The Need for Clarity and Certainty | |
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Clinician Power | |
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Stanley Milgram and Obedience to Authority | |
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Power and the Clinician | |
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The Need for Acceptance | |
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Solomon Asch and Conformity | |
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Expectations | |
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Frame of Reference: Theodore X. Barber, Ph.D. | |
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The Need for Internal Harmony | |
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Communication Style | |
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Conclusion | |
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Matters of the Mind | |
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Conscious and Unconscious Characteristics | |
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Unconscious Processing | |
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The Unconscious and Symptom Formation | |
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Treatment at an Unconscious Level | |
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Frame of Reference: Milton H. Erickson, M.D. | |
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In Defense of the Mind | |
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The Myth of a Benevolent, All-Powerful Unconscious | |
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Conclusion | |
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Responsiveness to Hypnosis | |
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Personality Factors and Hypnotizability | |
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Imaginative Ability, Fantasy Proneness, and Hypnotizability | |
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Absorption and Hypnotizability | |
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Expectancy and Hypnotizability | |
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Gender and Hypnotizability | |
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Frame of Reference: Kay Thompson, D.D.S. | |
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Age and Hypnotizability | |
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Self-Esteem and Hypnotizability | |
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Mental Status and Hypnotizability | |
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Single Factors, Multifactors, and Hypnotizability | |
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Enhancing Hypnotizability | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Phenomenology of Hypnosis | |
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Psychological Characteristics of Hypnosis | |
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Expectancy | |
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Selective Attention | |
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Dissociation | |
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Ernest Hilgard's "Hidden Observer" | |
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Martin Orne's "Trance Logic" | |
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Frame of Reference: Martin T. Orne, M.D., Ph.D. | |
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The Tendency toward Literal Interpretation | |
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Increased Responsiveness to Suggestion | |
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Cognitive and Perceptual Flexibility | |
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Physical Characteristics of Hypnosis | |
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Assessing the Phenomenology of Hypnotic Experience | |
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Conclusion | |
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Conditions for Conducting Hypnosis Sessions | |
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Environmental Variables | |
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Physical Variables | |
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Legal Variables, Especially Informed Consent | |
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Informed Consent | |
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Conclusion | |
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Structured Approaches to Assessing Hypnotic Responsiveness | |
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The Arguments Against Standardized Testing of Hypnotizability | |
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The Arguments for Standardized Testing of Hypnotizability | |
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My Bias on Assessment Issues | |
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Frame of Reference: Ernest R. Hilgard, Ph.D. | |
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General Functions of Suggestibility Tests | |
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Formal Assessment of Hypnotic Responsiveness | |
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The Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales | |
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Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility | |
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Hypnosis Induction Profile | |
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Informal Assessment of Hypnotic Responsiveness | |
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Chevreul's Pendulum | |
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The "Hot Object" Test | |
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The Hand Clasp | |
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Embedded Commands | |
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Nonverbal Shifts | |
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Some Tips on Performing Assessments of Hypnotic Responsiveness | |
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Conclusion | |
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Practical Framework | |
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Structuring Suggestions | |
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Suggestions Are Inevitable, but There's No Guarantee | |
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Direct and Indirect Suggestions | |
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Direct Suggestions | |
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Indirect Suggestions | |
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Choosing a Style: Are Direct or Indirect Suggestions Better? | |
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Authoritarian and Permissive Suggestion Styles | |
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Authoritarian Suggestions | |
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Permissive Suggestions | |
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Positive and Negative Suggestions | |
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Positive Suggestions | |
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Negative Suggestions | |
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Content and Process Suggestions | |
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Content Suggestions | |
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Process Suggestions | |
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Posthypnotic Suggestions | |
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Specialized Suggestions | |
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Accessing Questions | |
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Ambiguous Suggestions | |
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Apposition of Opposites | |
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Bind of Comparable Alternatives | |
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Confusional Suggestions | |
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Covering All Possibilities | |
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Implied Directives | |
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Interspersal of Suggestions | |
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Metaphors | |
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Paradoxical Suggestions | |
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Presuppositions | |
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Puns | |
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Truisms | |
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Conclusion | |
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Helpful Hints for Performing Hypnosis | |
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Keep Your Suggestions Simple and Easy to Follow | |
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Use the Client's Language as Much as Sensibly Possible | |
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Frame of Reference: Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. | |
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Have the Client Define Terms Experientially | |
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Use the Present Tense and a Positive Structure | |
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Encourage and Compliment Positive Responses | |
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Determine Ownership of the Problem and Problem-Solving Resources | |
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Use Sensory Modalities Selectively | |
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Keep the Client as Informed as Desired and as Necessary to Succeed | |
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Give Your Clients the Time They Need to Respond | |
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Only Use Touch Selectively and Always with the Client's Permission | |
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Use Anticipation Signals to Announce Your Intentions | |
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Use a Voice and Demeanor Consistent with Your Intent | |
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Chain Suggestions Structurally | |
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Use Process Suggestions to Encourage Projections | |
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Build Response Sets Gradually | |
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If Desirable, Substitute Other Terms for Hypnosis | |
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Conclusion | |
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Formal Strategies of Hypnotic Induction | |
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Formal, Structured Hypnotic Inductions | |
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Beginning the Hypnotic Process | |
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Progressive Muscle Relaxation Techniques | |
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Relaxed Scene Experience | |
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Eye-Fixation Techniques | |
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Counting Methods | |
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The "As If" Method | |
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Intensifying (Deepening) Techniques | |
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The Stairs (or Elevator) Going Down | |
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Compounding: Verbal and Manual | |
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The Mind's Eye Closure | |
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Silence | |
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Posthypnotic Suggestion and Re-Induction | |
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Summary | |
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Informal, Conversational Strategies of Hypnotic Induction | |
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Conversational (Naturalistic) Inductions | |
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Using Past Hypnotic Experiences | |
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Building an Internal Focus | |
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Metaphorical Inductions with Embedded Suggestions | |
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Induction through Negative Suggestion | |
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Induction through Confusion Techniques | |
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Conclusion | |
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Hypnotic Phenomena: Eliciting and Utilizing Hypnotic Resources | |
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Age Regression | |
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Description | |
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Age Regression at the Heart of the Field's Biggest Controversy | |
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Focal Point: Creating False Memories | |
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General Strategies to Elicit Age Regression | |
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Approaches to Eliciting Age Regression | |
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Age Progression | |
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Description | |
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Strategies to Elicit Age Progression | |
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Approaches to Eliciting Age Progression | |
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Hypnotic Amnesia | |
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Description | |
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Strategies to Elicit Amnesia | |
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Dissociation | |
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Analgesia and Anesthesia | |
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Description | |
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Strategies to Elicit Analgesia and Anesthesia | |
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Catalepsy | |
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Description | |
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Strategies to Elicit Catalepsy | |
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Dissociation | |
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Description | |
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Strategies to Elicit Dissociation | |
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Hallucinations and Sensory Alterations | |
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Description | |
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Strategies to Elicit Hallucinations and Sensory Alterations | |
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Ideodynamic Responses | |
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Desciption | |
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Strategies to Elicit Ideodynamic Responses | |
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Time Distortion | |
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Description | |
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Strategies to Elicit Time Distortion | |
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Ending the Hypnosis Session (Disengagement) | |
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Conclusion | |
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Designing and Delivering Hypnotic Interventions in Treatment | |
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Doing Hypnosis Versus Being Hypnotic | |
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The Skills of a Clinician | |
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The Preliminaries to Hypnotic Intervention | |
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Strategically Designing Hypnosis Sessions | |
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Hypnosis and the Targets of Treatment | |
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Frame of Reference: David Spiegel, M.D. | |
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Designing Interventions: Where to Focus First | |
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Designing Interventions: Building Therapeutic Momentum and Response Sets | |
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Designing Interventions: Risk Factors as Intervention Targets | |
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Delivering Interventions: What about Using Hypnosis in the First Session? | |
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Delivering Interventions: Introducing Hypnosis to the Client | |
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Delivering Interventions: Choosing Your Hypnotic Style | |
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Designing Interventions: A Generic Structure for a Hypnosis Session | |
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Delivering Interventions: Following Up the Session | |
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The Art of Designing and Delivering Hypnosis Sessions | |
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Hypnotic Patterns Commonly Employed in Psychotherapy | |
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Symptom Structures and Hypnotic Phenomena | |
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Patterns of Hypnotic Intervention | |
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Changing Personal History | |
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Critical (Traumatic) Incident Process | |
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Homework Assignments | |
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Reframing | |
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Symptom Prescription | |
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Therapeutic Metaphors | |
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Summary | |
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Addressing Common Clinical Concerns Hypnotically | |
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Anxiety, Stress | |
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Depression | |
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Relationship Problems | |
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Self-Esteem Problems | |
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Substance Abuse | |
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Sexual Dysfunctions | |
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Conclusion | |
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Treatment Dynamics and Sample Hypnosis Session Transcripts for Common Problems | |
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Themes of Therapy | |
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Using Therapeutic Metaphors in Hypnosis | |
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Session Transcripts | |
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Self-Definition and Taking Care of Self | |
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Pain Management | |
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Goal (Future) Orientation | |
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Adaptability | |
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Weight Management | |
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Stress Management | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Case of Vicki: Hypnosis for Coping with Terminal Cancer | |
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Background of the Session | |
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Context of the Session | |
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The Case of Vicki | |
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Verbatim Transcript & Commentary and Analysis | |
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Follow-Up and Final Comments | |
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When People Respond in Non-Ideal Ways | |
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Resistance in Hypnosis | |
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Resistance to Hypnosis | |
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Resistance to Therapeutic Progress | |
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Frame of Reference: Jay Haley, Ph.D. (Hon.), M.A. | |
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Responding to Resistance | |
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Conclusion | |
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Hypnotic Hazards and Ethical Guidelines | |
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Spontaneous Regression and Abreaction | |
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Symptom Substitution | |
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Confabulations | |
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Failure to Remove Suggestions | |
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Frame of Reference: Karen Olness, M.D. | |
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Ethical Guidelines | |
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Conclusion | |
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Postscript | |
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The Next Step | |
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Closure | |
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Hypnosis Organizations for Professionals and Journal Information | |
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Supplemental Materials from Michael D. Yapko, Ph.D. | |
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Author Index | |
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Subject Index | |
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Frames of Reference | |
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Andre M. Weitzenhoffer, Ph.D., M.A., SC.M., SC.B. | |
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Helen J. Crawford, Ph.D. | |
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William Kroger, M.D. | |
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Theodore X. Barber, Ph.D. | |
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Milton H. Erickson, M.D. | |
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Kay Thompson, D.D.S. | |
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Martin T. Orne, M.D., Ph.D. | |
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Ernest R. Hilgard, Ph.D. | |
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Jeffrey K. Zeig, Ph.D. | |
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David Spiegel, M.D. | |
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Jay Haley, Ph.D. (Hon.), M.A. | |
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Karen Olness, M.D. | |