Posthypnotic amnesia: Experiments and theory

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There are wide individual differences in response to suggested posthypnotic amnesia. In addition there are various kinds of amnesia suggestions. The difficulty of obtaining spontaneous post-hypnotic amnesia, relative to suggested posthypnotic amnesia, is noted. It is easier to demonstrate spontaneous source amnesia, but again it is more readily obtained by the direct suggestion that it will occur. Five hypotheses about posthypnotic amnesia are briefly examined: (a) poor memory under hypnosis, (b) regression as favorable to amnesia, (c) repression as a cognitive style, (d) motor inhibition theory, and (e) amnesia as representative of dissociation.

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