SEQUELAE TO HYPNOTIC INDUCTION WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EARLIER CHEMICAL ANESTHESIA

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The present study is concerned with the sequelae to hypnosis in a non-patient sample of students coming to the laboratory for scientific purposes, so that neither therapy nor persistent post-hypnotic suggestions were involved. The sample of 220 Ss included 114 male and 106 female students drawn from classes in introductory psychology. While the language of psychodynamics is appropriate in the discussion of these cases, the many redintegrative factors also suggest that learning theory can have to say in explanation of them. Because learning theory has ways of dealing with conflict and conflict resolution, it can also encompass some of the problems discussed as conflicts over authority, commonly treated in psychodynamics as transference problems. The many reflections of earlier childhood experiences in the sequelae, including some of the dreams, suggest the promise of a developmental theory of hypnosis.

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