A New Theory of Hypnosis Edgar Howarth

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Abstract
A new theory of hypnosis was suggested on the basis of interaction between the neural representations of the primary and secondary systems. It was suggested that the hypnotizer was able to integrate his own semantic commands into the neural representations as previously conditioned within the brain of the subject from past experience from semantic visual/auditory distal invariants. This was done by input contiguity between the verbal “commands” or “suggestions” from the experimenter accompanying stimulus or input reduction and the later “necessary events.” We realize that our terminology is “new” (or may seem new to some) but the older terminology is largely anthropomorphic, and certainly does not offer explanations of psychological phenomena, such as hypnosis.

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