The Subject as Programmer

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The significance of idiosyncratic responses in the hypnotic situation is considered. Idiosyncracy is traced to alterations in response regnancies and to the use by the subject of his interests and of defense mechanisms to meet the challenge of the situation created by the hypnotic instruction. Examples are drawn from experiments dealing with the effect of color on mood and with the variable of perceived distance, as well as from a clinical case history to show how response metaphors are created, how they control responses and how they themselves change. The implications of some of these changes for personality theory and therapy with schizophrenics are noted.

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