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An Empirical Approach to HypnosisAn Overview of Barber's Work
ABDULHUSEIN S. DALAL, MA
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1966;15(2):151-157.
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MANY ATTEMPTS have been made to formulate an adequate theory which will explain the nature of "hypnosis" and account for the diverse phenomena attributed to it. To explain the phenomena past theories of hypnosis have employed a hypothetical construct, namely, a "hypnotic state" or "trance state," which defies scientific scrutiny and empirical validation. Until relatively recently no strictly scientific approach has been made to understand the interesting phenomena of analgesia, amnesia, hallucination, age regression, time distortion, catalepsy, and the like, which have been traditionally associated with hypnosis.
The recent work of Barber1-27 and his associates constitutes an approach which brings hypnosis under the purview of strictly scientific investigation. This work, which includes exhaustive critical reviews of the literature and empirical investigations of a wide range of hypnotic phenomena, represents the most comprehensive contemporary treatment of hypnosis.28
Barber's stand on the problem of
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Author Affiliations
QUINCY, MASS
Mr. Dalal has been an exchange visitor in Clinical Psychology at South Shore Mental Health Center, Quincy, Mass. He has been appointed as Fellow at the Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, New York.
Footnotes
Submitted for publication Jan 9, 1966.
Reprint requests to Postgraduate Center for Mental Health, 124 E 28th St, New York 10016.
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