Hypnosis research papers
Links to articles hosted legally on author websites are provided where possible. Unfortunately many articles are behind pay-walls and only those with
institutional access can get access to them. If you want a free copy of any of these articles your best bet is to email the author and ask for a reprint - most are happy to oblige. Some links may become broken or dormant over time if article and papers are removed from various sites.
Abbot, N. C., Stead, L.F., White, A. R., Barnes, J. (1998) Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD001008. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001008
Alladin, A. (2009). Evidence-based cognitive hypnotherapy for depression. Contemporary Hypnosis, 26(4). 245-262.
Allison, D. B., Faith, M. S. (1996). Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy for obesity: A meta-analytic reappraisal. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 513-516.
Banyai, E. I., Hilgard, E. R. (1976). A comparison of active-alert hypnotic induction with traditional relaxation induction.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85(2), 218-224.
Bär, K. J., Gaser, C., Nenadic, I., Sauer, H. (2002). Transient activation of a somatosensory area in painful hallucinations shown by
fMRI. NeuroReport, 13(6), 1-4.
Barabasz, M., Spiegel, D. (1989). Hypnotizability and weight loss in obese subjects. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 8,
335-341.
Barber, J., Donaldson, D., Ramras, S., Allen, G. D. (1979). The relationship between nitrous oxide conscious sedation and the
hypnotic state. Journal of the American Dental Association, 99(4), 624-626.
Barber, T. X., Wilson, S. C. (1978). The Barber Suggestibility Scale and the Creative Imagination Scale: Experimental and
clinical applications. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 21: 84-108.
Barnier, A. J. (2002). Post-hypnotic amnesia for autobiographical episodes: a laboratory model of functional amnesia?
Psychological Science, 13: 232-7.
Barnier, A. M., McConkey, K. M. (2004). Defining and identifying the highly hypnotizable person. In: M. Heap, R. J. Brown, D. A.
Oakley (Eds.), The Highly Hypnotizable Person. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Barnier, A. J., McConkey, K. M. (2003). Hypnosis, human nature and complexity: integrating neuroscience approaches into hypnosis
research. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 51:282-308.
Barnier, A. J., Nash, M. R. (2008). Introduction: a roadmap for explanation, a working definition. In M. R. Nash & A. J. Barnier
(eds). The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis: Theory, Research and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Barrios, A. A. (2001). A theory of hypnosis based on principles of conditioning and inhibition. Contemporary Hypnosis, 18, 163-202.
Beck, A. T., Alford, B. A. (2009). Depression: Causes and treatment. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
Benham, G., Bowers, S., Nash, M., Muenchen, R. (1998). Self-fulfilling prophecy and hypnotic response are not the same thing.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1604-1613.
Bernstein, E. M., & Putnam, F. W. (1986). Development, reliability, and validity of a dissociation scale. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174, 727–735.
Blakemore, S-J., Oakley, D. A., Frith, C. D. (2003). Delusions of alien control in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 41:1058-67.
Bolocofsky, D. N., Spinler, D., Coulthard-Morris, L. (1985). Effectiveness of hypnosis as an adjunct to behavioral weight management. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41, 35-41.
Borkovec, T. D., Fowles, D. C. (1973). Controlled investigation of the effects of progressive and hypnotic relaxation on insomnia.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 82(1), 153-158.
Bornstein, P. H., Devine, D. A. (1980). Covert modeling-hypnosis in the treatment of obesity. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research,
and Practice, 17, 272-276.
Bowers, K. S. (1992). Imagination and dissociation in hypnotic responding. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Hypnosis, 40, 253-275.
Bowers, K. S. (1993). The Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility: Normative and comparative data.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 41, 35-46.
Bowers, K. S. (1998). Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form C: Manual and Response Booklet. International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 46(3), 250-268.
Braffman, W., Kirsch, I. (2001). Reaction time as a predictor of imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability. Contemporary
Hypnosis, 18(3), 107-119.
Braid, J. (1943). Neurohypnology or the rationale of nervous sleep considered in relation with animal magnetism. London.
British Psychological Society. (2001). The Nature of Hypnosis: A report prepared by a Working Party at the request of the
Professional Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society. Download paper from BPS website View PDF (0.2 MB)
Brown, R. J. (1999). An integrative cognitive theory of suggestion and hypnosis. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College London.
Brown, R. J., Oakley, D. A. (2004). An integrative cognitive theory of hypnosis and hypnotizability. In: M. Heap, R. J. Brown, D. A. Oakley (Eds.), The Highly Hypnotizable Person. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Bryant, R. A., Kourch, M. (2001). Hypnotically-induced emotional numbing. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 49, 220-230.
Bryant, R. A. (2005). Hypnotic emotional numbing: A study of implicit emotion. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 53, 26-36.
Bryant, R. A., Kapur, A. (2006). Hypnotically-induced emotional numbing: The roles of hypnosis and
hypnotizability. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 54(3), 281-291.
Cash, T. F., Brown, T. A. (1987). Body image in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Behaviour Modification, 11(4), 487-521.
Cloninger, C. R., Svrakic, D. M., Przybeck, T. R. (1993). A psychobiological model of temperament and character. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50(12), 975-990.
Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cojan, Y., Waber, L., Schwartz, S., Rossier, L., Forster, A., Vuilleumier, P. (2009). The brain under self-control: Modulation of
inhibitory and monitoring cortical networks during hypnotic paralysis. Neuron, 62, 862-875.
Link to abstract on PubMed
Council, J. R. (1993). Context effects in personality research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2, 31-4.
Council, J. R., Kirsch, I., Grant, D. L. (1996). Imagination, expectancy, and hypnotic responding. In: R. G. Kunzendorf, N. P.
Spanos and B. Wallace (Eds.), Hypnosis and Imagination (pp. 41-65), New York: Baywood.
Covino, N. A., Bottari, M. (2001). Hypnosis, behavioral theory, and smoking cessation. Journal of Dental Education, 65(4), 340-347.
Crawford, H. J., Gruzelier, J. H. (1992). A midstream view of the neuropsychophysiology of hypnosis: recent research and future directions. In: Fromm, E., Nash, M. (Eds.), Contemporary Hypnosis Research. Guilford Press, New York, USA, pp. 227-266.
Crawford, H. J., Gur, R. C., Skolnick, B., Gur, R. E., Benson, D. M. (1993). Effects of hypnosis on regional cerebral blood flow during ischemic pain with and without suggested hypnotic analgesia.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 15, 181-195.
de Groh, M. (1989). Correlates of hypnotic
susceptibility. In: N. P. Spanos., J. F. Chaves. Hypnosis: The Cognitive
Behavioural Perspective. New York: Prometheus Books.
Deckert, G. H., West, L. J. (1963). The problem of
hypnotizability: A review. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Hypnosis, 11, 205-235.
Deeprose, C., Andrade, J. (2006). Is priming
during anesthesia unconscious? Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 1-23.doi:10.1016/j.concog.2005.05.003
Derbyshire, S. W. G., Whalley, M. G., Stenger, V. A., Oakley, D. A. (2004). Cerebral activation during hypnotically induced and
imagined pain. NeuroImage, 27: 969-78.
View PDF (0.5 MB)
Derbyshire, S. W. G., Whalley, M. G., Oakley, D. A. (2008). Fibromyalgia pain and its modulation by hypnotic and non-hypnotic
suggestion: An fMRI analysis. European Journal of Pain (in press)
View PDF (0.5 MB)
Deyoub, P. L., Wilkie, R. (1980). Suggestion with and without hypnotic induction in a weight reduction program. International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 28, 333-340.
Dienes, Z., Brown, E., Hutton, S., Kirsch, I., Mazzoni, G., Wright, D. B. (2009). Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive
inhibition, and dissociation. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 837-847.
Download paper
Dienes, Z., & Perner, J. (2007). The cold control theory of hypnosis. In G. Jamieson (Ed.), Hypnosis and conscious states:
The cognitive neuroscience perspective. Oxford University Press, pp 293-314.
Egner, T., Jamieson, G., Gruzelier, J. (2005).
Hypnosis decouples cognitive control from conflict monitoring processes of the frontal lobe. NeuroImage, 27, 969-978.
Emmons, W. H., Simon, C. W. (1955). The non-recall of material presented during sleep. The American Journal of Psychology, 69,
76-81
Erhard, H. W., Mendl, M., Christiansen, S. B. (1999). Individual differences in tonic immobility may reflect behavioural
strategies. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 64, 31-46.
Erickson, M. H. (1954). Hypnotism. In Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th Edition.
Eriksen, B. A., Eriksen, C. W. (1974). Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a traget letter in a nonsearch task.
Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143-149.
Faith, M., Ray, W. J. (1994). Hypnotizability and dissociation in a college age population: orthogonal individual differences.
Personality and Individual Differences, 17, 211-216.
Faymonville, M. E., Mambourg, P. H., Joris, J., Vrijens, B., Fissette, J. Albert, A., Lamy, M. (1997). Psychological approaches
during conscious sedation. Hypnosis versus stress reducing strategies: a prospective randomized study. Pain, 73, 361-367.
Faymonville, M. E., Laureys, S., Degueldre, C., Fiore, G. D., Luxen, A., Franck, G., Lamy, M., Maquet, P. (2000). Neural
mechanisms of antinociceptive effects of hypnosis. Anesthesiology, 92,1257-1267.
Faymonville, M. E., Roediger, L., Fiore, G. D., Delgueldre, C., Phillips, C., Lamy, M., Luxen, A., Maquet, P., Laureys, S.
(2003). Increased cerebral functional connectivity underlying the antinociceptive effects of hypnosis. Cognitive Brain Research, 17, 255-262.
Flammer, E., Bongartz, W. (2003). On the efficacy of hypnosis: A meta-analytic study. Contemporary Hypnosis, 20, 179-197.
Read abstract
Folz, E. L., While, L. E. (1962). Pain "relief" by frontal cingulotomy. Journal of Neurosurgery, 19: 89-100.
aFromm, E. (1979). The nature of hypnosis and other altered states of consciousness: An ego-psychological theory. In E. Fromm and R.
Shor (eds), Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives (pp.81-103), New York: Aldine.
Fromm, E. (1990). Self-hypnosis: The Chicago paradigm. New York: The Guildford Press
Fromm, E. (1992). An ego-psychological theory of hypnosis. In E. Fromm and M. Nash (Eds), Contemporary Hypnosis Research (pp.
131-148), London, Guilford Press.
Gallup, G. G. (1974). Animal hypnosis: factual status of a fictional concept. Psychological Bulletin, 81(11), 836-853.
Gandhi, B., Oakley, D. A. (2005). Does 'hypnosis' by any other name smell as sweet? The efficacy of 'hypnotic' inductions depends on
the label 'hypnosis'. Consciousness and Cognition, 14, 304-315.
Read abstract
Gheorghiou, V. A., Polczyk, R., Kappeller, C.(2003). The Warmth Suggestibility Scale—a procedure for measuring the
influence of suggestion on warmth sensations. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 219-234.
Gibson, H. B., Corcoran, M. E., Curran, J. D. (1977). Hypnotic susceptibility and personality: The consequences of diazepam
and the sex of the subjects. British Journal of Psychology, 68, 51-59.
Goldstein, A., Hilgard, E. R. (1975). Failure of opiate antagonist Naloxone to modify hypnotic analgesia. Proceedings of the
National Acadmeny of Sciences, USA, 6, 2041-2043.
View abstract
Gorassini, D. R., Spanos, N. P. (1986). A cognitive-social skills approach to the successful modification of hypnotic
suggestibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 1004-1012.
Gorassini, D. R. (2004). Enhancing hypnotizability. In M. Heap, R. J., Brown, D. A. Oakley. The Highly Hypnotizable
Person, London: Routledge.
Green, J. (2006) The five factor model of personality and hypnotizability: little variance in common. Contemporary Hypnosis, 21(4),
161-168
Green, J. P., Barabasz, A. F., Barrett, D. Montgomery, G. H. (2005). Forging ahead: the 2003 APA Division 30 definition of
hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
Green, J. P., Lynn, S. J. (2000). Hypnosis and suggestion-based approaches to smoking cessation. International Journal of
Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48(2), 195-223.
Gruzelier, J. H. (1990). Neurophysiological investigations of hypnosis: cerebral laterality and beyond. In: Van Dyck, R.,
Spinhoven, P. H., Van der Does, A. J. W. (Eds.), Hypnosis: Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice. Free University Press, pp. 38-51.
Gruzeler, J. H. (1998). A working model of the neurophysiology of hypnosis: A review of evidence. Contemporary Hypnosis, 15,3-21.
Gudjonsson, G. H. (1984). A new scale of interrogative suggestibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 5(3), 303-314.
Halligan, P. W., Athwal, B. S., Oakley, D. A., Frackowiak, R. S. J. (2000). The functional anatomy of a hypnotic paralysis:
implications for conversion hysteria. The Lancet, 356: 986-7.
Halsband, U., Mueller, S., Hinterberger, T., Strickner, S. (2009). Plasticity changes in the brain in hypnosis and
meditation. Contemporary Hypnosis, 26(4), 194-215.
Hargadon, R., Bowers, K. S. Woody, E. Z. (1995). Does counterpain imagery mediate hypnotic analgesia?
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104(3), 508-516.
View abstract
Hawkins, R. M. F. (2001). A systematic meta-review of hypnosis as an empirically supported treatment for pain. Pain Reviews, 8,47-73.
View abstract
Heap, M. (1996) The nature of hypnosis. The Psychologist, 9 (11), 498-501.
Heap, M., Brown, R. J., Oakley, D. A. (Eds.) (2004). The Highly Hypnotizable Person. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Heap, M., Aravind, K. (2002). Hartland's medical and dental hypnosis (4th edition). London: Harcourt.
Hilgard E. R. (1965). Hypnotic susceptibility. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Hilgard, E. R. (1991). A neodissociation interpretation of hypnosis. In SJ Lynn and JW Rhue, eds. Theories of hypnosis:
current models and perspectives. pp. 83-104. New York, Guilford Press.
Hilgard, E. R. (1973). A neurodissociation interpretation of pain reduction in hypnosis. Psychological Review, 80,396-411.
Holmes, E. A., Brown, R. J., Mansell, W., Fearon, R.P., Hunter, E. C. M., Frasquilho, F., Oakley, D. (2005). Are there two
qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation? A review and some clinical implications. Clinical Psychology Review, 225, 1-23.
Horton, J. E., Crawford, H. J., Harrington, G., Downs, J. H. (2004). Increased anterior corpus callosum size associated with
hypnotizability and the ability to control pain. Brain, 127(8), 1741-1747.
Read paper
Houghton L. A., Heyman D.J., Whorwell P.J. (1996).
Symptomatology, quality of life and economic features of irritable bowel
syndrome--the effect of hypnotherapy. Aliment Pharmacol Ther, 10:1, 91-5.
Hull, C. L. (1933). Hypnosis and suggestibility: An experimental approach. New York: Applegate.
Hurwitz, T. D., Mahowald, M. W., Schenck, C. H., Schulter, J. L., Bundlie, S. R. (1991). A retrospective outcome study and review
of hypnosis as treatment of adults with sleepwalking and sleep terror. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 179(4), 228-233.
Hutchinson-Philips, S., Gow, K.,Jamieson, G. A. (2007). Hypnotizability, eating behaviours, attitudes, and
concerns: A literature survey. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55, 84-113.
Iani, C., Ricci, F., Gherri, E., Rubichi, S. (2006). Hypnotic suggestion modulates cognitive conflict: The case of the Flanker
compatibility effect. Psychological Science, 17(8), 721-727.
Jacobson, N. O., Silfverskiold, N. P. (1973). A controlled study of a hypnotic method in the treatment of alcoholism, with
evaluation by objective criteria. British Journal of Addiction, 68, 25-31.
Jamieson, G. A. (2007). Hypnosis and conscious states: the cognitive neuroscience perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jamieson, G. A., Woody, E. (2007). Dissociated control as a paradigm for cognitive neuroscience research and theorizing in
hypnosis. In G. A. Jamieson (Ed), Hypnosis and conscious states: the cognitive neuroscience perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jamieson, G. A., Sheehan, P. W. (2002). A critical evaluation of the relationship between sustained attentional abilities and
hypnotic susceptibility. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19, 62-74.
Kallio, S., Revonsuo, A., Hamalainen, H., Markela, J., Gruzelier, J. H. (2001). Anterior brain functions and hypnosis: a test of
the frontal hypothesis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 49, 95-108.
Keefe, F. J., Lumley, M., Anderson, T., Lynch, T., Studts, J. L., Carson, K. L. (2001). Pain and emotion: new research directions.
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 57(4); 587-607.
Kelly, S. F., Fisher, S., Kelly, R. J. (1978).Effects of cannabis intoxication on primary suggestibility. Psychopharmacology,
56, 217-219.
Kihlstrom, J. F. (2008). The doman of hypnosis revisited. In M. R. Nash & A. J. Barnier (eds). The Oxford Handbook of
Hypnosis: Theory, Research and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kihlstrom, J. F. (1985). Hypnosis. Annual Review of Psychology, 36, 385-418.
Kirsch, I. (1996). Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioural weight-loss treatments - another meta-reanalysis. Journal
of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 517-519.
Kirsch, I., Cardeña, E., Derbyshire, S., Dienes, Z., Heap, M., Kallio, S., Mazzoni, G., Naish, P., Oakley, D., Potter, C., Walters,
V., Whalley, M. (2011). Definitions of Hypnosis and Hypnotizability and their Relation to Suggestion and Suggesitibility: A Consensus Statement.
Contemporary Hypnosis (in press)
Read draft version of paper
Kirsch, I., Mazzoni, G., Montgomery, G. H. (2007).
Remembrance of hypnosis past. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 49,171-178.
Kirsch, I., Montgomery, G., & Sapirstein, G. (1995). Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy: A
meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 63, 214-220.
Kirsch, I., Lynn, S. J. (1997). Hypnotic involuntariness and the automaticity of everyday life. American Journal of
Clinical Hypnosis, 40, 329-348.
Kirsch, I., Wickless, C., Moffitt, K. H. (1999). Expectancy and suggestibility: Are the effects of environmental enhancement due
to detection? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 47, 40-45.
View abstract
Kirsch, I., Braffman, W. (2001). Imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability. Current Directions in Psychological Science,
4(2), 57-61.
View abstract
Knox, V. J., Morgan, A. H., Hilgard, E. R. (1974). Pain and suffering in ischemia: the paradox of hypnotically suggested anesthesia
as contradicted by reports from the 'hidden observer'. Archives of General Psychiatry, 30, 840-847
Kosslyn, S. M., Thompson, W. L., Constantini-Ferrando, M. F., Alpert, N. M., Spiegel, D. (2000). Hypnotic visual
illusion alters colour processing in the brain. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157: 1279-84.
View abstract and download PDF from AJP
Laidlaw, T. M., Dwivedi, P., Naito, A., Gruzelier, J. H. (2005). Low self-directedness (TCI), mood, schizotypy and hypnotic
susceptibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 469-480.
View abstract
Lang, E. V., Rosen, M. P. (2002). Cost analysis of adjunct hypnosis with sedation during outpatient interventional radiologic
procedures. Radiology, 222, pp. 375-82.
Lang, E. V., Benotsch, E. G., Fick, L. J., Lutgendorf, S., Berbaum, M. L., Berbaum, K. S., Logan, H., Spiegel, D. (2000). Adjunctive
non-pharmacological analgesia for invasive medical procedures: a randomized trial. The Lancet, 355, 1486-1490.
View abstract
Lichtenberg, P., Bachner-Melman, R., Gritsenko,I., Ebstein, R. P. (2000). Exploratory association study between
catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) high/low enzyme activity polymorphism and hypnotizability. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 96(6), 771-774.
London, P. (1962). Children's Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Lynn, S. J., Rhue, J. W. (1988). 'Fantasy-proneness:Hypnosis, developmental antecedents, and psychopathology'. American
Psychologist, 43, 35-44.
Lynn, S. J., Rhue, J. W., Weekes, J. (1990). An integrative model of hypnotic involuntariness. In van Dyck, Spinhoven, Van der
Does, Van Rood, De Moor (Eds)., Hypnosis: Current Theory, Research and Practice. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
Lynn, S. J., Myer, E., Mackillop, J. (2000). The systematic study of negative post-hypnotic effects: Research hypnosis, clinical
hypnosis and stage hypnosis. Contemporary Hypnosis, 17, 127-131.
Lynn, S. J., Kirsch, I., Barabasz, A., Cardeña, E.,& Patterson, D. (2000). Hypnosis as an empirically supported clinical
intervention: The state of the evidence and a look to the future. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48, 235-255.
Maquet, P., Faymonville, M. E., Degueldre, C., Delfiore, G., Franck, G., Luxen, A., Lamy, M. (1999). Functional neuroanatomy of
hypnotic state. Biological Psychiatry, 45, 327-333.
Maser, J. D., Gallup, G. G. (1974). Tonic immobility in the chicken: Catalepsy potentiation by uncontrollable shock and alleviation
by imipramine. Psychosomatic Medicine, 36(3), 199-205.
Mendelsohn, A., Chalamish, Y., Solomonovich, A., Dudai, Y. (2008). Mesmerizing memories: Brain substrates of episodic memory
suppression in post-hypnotic amnesia. Neuron, 57, 159-170.
Mesmer, F. A. (1766). Dissertatio Physico-Medica de Planetarium Influxu. Vindobona
Miller, M. F., Barabasz, A. F., Barabasz, M. (1991). Effects of active alert and relaxation hypnotic inductions on cold presser pain.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100(2), 223-226.
View abstract
Montgomery, G. H., Bovbjerg, D. H., Schnur, J. B., David, D., Goldfarb, A., Weltz, C. R., Schechter, C., Graff-Zivin, J.,
Tatrow, K., Price, D. D., Siverstein, J. H. (2007). A randomized clinical trial of a brief hypnosis intervention to control side effects in breast surgery
patients. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 99, 1304-1312.
View abstract
Montgomery, G. H., David, D., Winkel, G., Siverstein, J. H., Bovbjerg, D. H. (2002). The effectiveness of adjunctive
hypnosis with surgical patients: A meta-analysis. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 94(6), 1639-1645.
View abstract and download PDF from A&A
Montgomery, GH., DuHamel, KN., Redd WH. (2000). A meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia: how effective is hypnosis?
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48(2), 138-53.
Morgan, A. H. (1973). The heritability of hypnotic susceptibility in twins. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 82, 55-61.
Müller, K., Bacht, K., Schramm, S., Seitz, R. J. (2012). The facilitating effect of clinical hypnosis on motor imagery: An fMRI
study. Behavioural Brain Research, 231, 164-169.
Nash, M., Benham, G. (2005). The truth and hype of hypnosis. Scientific American
(Read the article on Scientific American website)
Norman, D.A. and Shallice, T. (1980/1986). Attention to action: Willed and automatic control of behaviour. Centre for Human
Information Processing (Technical Report #99). Reprinted in revised form in Davidson, R.J., Schwartz, G.E., and Shapiro, D. (Eds.) (1986), Consciousness and
Self-Regulation (Volume 4), New York: Plenum.
Oakley, D. A. (1999). Hypnosis and consciousness: A structural model. Contemporary Hypnosis, 16, 215-223.
Download PDF from HypnosisUnitUK.com (2.1 MB)
Oakley, D. A. (2006). Hypnosis as a tool in research: experimental psychopathology. Contemporary Hypnosis, 23(1): 3-14.
Download PDF from HypnosisUnitUK.com (4.2 MB)
Oakley, D. A., Deeley. Q., Halligan, P. W. (2007). Hypnotic depth and response to suggestion under standardized conditions and
during fMRI scanning. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(1), 32-58.
Orne, M. T. (1962). On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics
and their implications. American Psychologist, 17(11), 776-783.
Orne, M. T., Evans, F. J. (1965). Social control in the psychological experiment: Antisocial behaviour and hypnosis. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 189-200.
Orne, M. T., & Evans, F. J. (1966). Inadvertent termination of hypnosis with hypnotized and simulating subjects. International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 14, 61-78.
Read full article at UPenn.edu
Palsson O.S., Turner M.J., Whitehead W.E. (2006).
Hypnosis home treatment for irritable bowel syndrome: a pilot study.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 54(1):85-99.
Patterson, D. R., Jensen, M. P. (2003). Hypnosis
and clinical pain. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 129, pp. 495-521.
Pekala, R. J., Maurer, R., Kumar, V. K., Elliott, N.
C., Masten, E., Moon, E., Salinger, M. (2004). Self-hypnosis relapse prevention
training with chronic drug/alcohol users: effects of self-esteem, affect, and
relapse. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 46(4), 281-297.
Piccione, C., Hilgard, E. R., Zimbardo, P. G.
(1989). On the degree of stability and measured hypnotizability over a 25-year
period. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 289-295.
Download PDF from Zimbardo.com (1.6 MB)
Raij, T. T., Numminen, J., Narvarnen, S., Hiltunen,
J., Hari, R. (2005). Brain correlates of subjective reality of physically and
psychologically induced pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of
the United States of America, 102, 2147-2151.
View abstract and download PDF from PNAS (0.5 MB)
Raij, T. T., Numminen, J., Narvarnen, S., Hiltunen,
J., Hari, R. (2009). Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of
suggestion-induced pain. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 2890-2897.
Rainville, P., Duncan, G. H., Price, D. D.,
Carrier, B., Bushnell, M. C. (1997). Pain affect encoded in the human anterior
cingulate but not somatosensory cortex. Science, 277: 988-71.
Rainville, P., Hofbauer, R. K., Paus, T., Duncan,
G. H., Bushnell, M. C., Price, D. D. (1999). Cerebral mechanisms of hypnotic
induction and suggestion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(1), 110-125.
View abstract at PubMed
Rainville, P., Hofbauer, R. K., Bushnell, M. C.,
Dunca, G. H., Price, D. D. (2002). Hypnosis modulates activity in brain
structures involved in the regulation of consciousness. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 14(6), 887-901.
View abstract at PubMed
Raz, A. (2008). Genetics and neuroimaging of
attention and hypnotizability may elucidate placebo. International Journal of
Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56, 99-116.
Raz, A., Shapiro, T., Fan, J., POsner, M. I. (2002).
Hypnotic suggestion and the modulation of Stroop interference. Archives of
General Psychiatry, 59, 1155-1161.
Raz, A., Fan, J., Posner, M. I. (2005). Hypnotic
suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 9978-9983.
View abstract and download PDF from PNAS (0.9 MB)
Raz, A., Kirsch, I., Pollard, J., Nitkin-Kaner, Y.
(2006). Suggestion reduces the Stroop effect. Psychologcal Science, 17(2),
91-95.
Reyher, J. (1962). A paradigm for determining the
clinical relevance of hypnotically induced psychopathology. Psychological
Bullletin, 59: 344-352.
Richards, J. M., Gross, J. J. (2000). Emotion
regulation and memory: The cognitive costs of keeping one's cool. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 79(3), 410-424
Roberts, L., Wilson, S., Singh, S., Roalfe, A.,
Greenfield, S. (2006). Gut-directed hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome:
piloting a primary care-based randomised controlled trial. British Journal of
General Practice, 56, 115-121.
Read the abstract and full text at the British Journal of General Practice
Röder, C. H., Michal, M., Overbeck, van de Ven, V.
G., Linden, D. E. J. (2007). Pain response in depersonalization: a functional
imaging study using hypnosis in healthy subjects. Psychotherapy and
Psychosomatics, 76, 115-121.
View abstract at PubMed
Roth, A., Fonagy, P. (2005). What works for whom? A critical review of psychotherapy research. New York: The Guilford Press.
Ruehle, B. L., Zamansky, H. S. (1997). The experience of effortlessness in hypnosis: perceived or real? International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 45(2), 144-157.
View abstract at PubMed
Schiffrin, R. M., Schneider, W. (1977).
Controlled and automatic human information-processing: II. Perceptual learning,
automatic attending, and a general theory. Psychological Review, 84,
127-190.
Schulz-Stübner, S., Krings, T., Meister, I.
G., Rex, S., Thron, A., Rossaint, R. (2004). Clinical hypnosis modulates
functional magnetic resonance imaging signal intensities and pain perception in
a thermal stimulation paradigm. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 29(6),
549-556.
Shekelle, P., Woolf, S., Eccles, M., Grimshaw, J.
(2000). Developing guidelines. In M. Eccles & J. M. Grimshaw (Eds). Clinical
Guidelines: From Conception to Use. Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical.
Shergill, S. S., Brammer, M. J., Williams, S. C.
R., Murray, R. M., McGuire, P. K. (2000). Mapping auditory hallucinations in
schizophrenia using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Archives of General
Psychiatry, 57, 1033-1038.
Shor, R. E., Orne, E. C. (1962). Harvard Group Scale
of Hypnotic Susceptibility: Form A. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto,
California, USA.
Silagy C, Lancaster T, Stead L, Mant D, Fowler G.
(2004). Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD000146. DOI:
10.1002/14651858.CD000146.pub2
Read abstract
Silbersweig, D. A., Stera, E., Frith, C.,
Cahill, C., Holmes, A., Grootoonk, S., Seaward, J., McKenna, P., Chua, S. E.,
Schnorr, L., Jones, T., Frackowiak, R. S. J. (1995). A functional neuroanatomy
of hallucinations in schizophrenia. Nature, 378(9), 176-179.
Sjoberg, B. M., Hollister, L. E. (1965). The
effects of psychomimetic drugs on primary suggestibility. Psychopharmacology, 8,
251-262.
Spanos, N. P., Stam, H. J., D'Eon, J. L., Pawlak, A.
E., Radtke-Bodorik, H. L. (1980). Effect of social-psychological variables on
hypnotic analgesia. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(4),
737-750.
Spanos, N. P. (1983). The Carleton University
Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale (Group Administration). Unpublished
manuscript. Carleton University: Ottowa, Ontario, Canada.
Spanos, N. P. (1986). Hypnosis and the modification
of hypnotic susceptibility: A social psychological perspective. In P. Naish
(ed.), What is hypnosis? (pp. 85-120), Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Spanos, N. P., Menary, E., Gabora, N. J., DuBreuil,
S. C., Dewhirst, B. (1991). Secondary identity enactments during hypnotic
past-life regression: A sociocognitive perspective. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 61, 308-320.
Spelke, E., Hirst, W., Neisser, U. (1976). Skills of
divided attention. Cognition, 4, 215-230.
Spiegel, H. (1970). A single treatment method to
stop smoking using ancillary self-hypnosis. Intervational Journal of Clinical
and Experimental Hypnosis, 26, 22-29.
Spiegel, H. (1974). Manual for hypnotic
induction profile : eye-roll levitation method. New York: Soni Medica.
Spinhoven, P., Baak, D., van Dyck, R., et al
(1988). The effectiveness of an authoritarian versus permissive style of
hypnotic communication. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Hypnosis, 36, 182-191.
Staib, A. R., Logan, D. R. (1977). Hypnotic
stimulation of breast growth. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 19(4),
201-208.
Stead LF, Perera R, Lancaster T,. Telephone
counselling for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006,
Issue 3. Art. No.: CD002850. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002850.pub2
Read abstract
Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in
serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-661.
Szechtman, H., Woody, E., Bowers, K. S., Nahmias,
C. (1998). Where the imaginal appears real: a positron emission tomography study
of auditory hallucinations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95:
1956-60.
View abstract and download PDF at PNAS (0.3 MB)
Tellegen, A. (1978/1979). On measures and
conceptions of hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 21, 219-237.
Tellegen, A., & Atkinson, G. (1974). Openness
to absorbing and self-altering experiences ("absorption"), a trait related to
hypnotic susceptibility. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 83(3), 268-277.
Vanhaudenhuyse, A., Boly, M., Balteau, E.,
Schnakers, C., Moonen, G., Luxen, A., Lamy, M., Degueldre, C., Brichant, J. F.,
Maquet, P., Laureys, S., Faymonville, M. E. (2009). Pain and non-pain processing
during hypnosis: A thalium-YAG event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 47,
1047-1054.
Völgyesi, F. A. (1966). Hypnosis of man and
animals. London: Billing & Sons Ltd.
Wadden, T. A., Flaxman, J. (1981). Hypnosis and
weight loss: A preliminary study. International Journal of Clinical and
Experimental Hypnosis, 29, 162-173.
Wegner, D. M., Erber, R., Zanakos, S. (1993). Ironic
processes in the mental control of mood and mood-related thoughts. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1093-1104.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1959).
Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms A and B. Consulting Psychologists
Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1962).
Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms C. Consulting Psychologists Press,
Palo Alto, California, USA.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1963).
Stanford Profile Scales of Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms I and II.
Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1967).
Revised Stanford Profile Scales of Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms I and
II. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Wetizenhoffer, A. M. (1980). Hypnotic
susceptibility revisited. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 22,
130-146.
Whalley, M. G., Brooks, G. B. (2009). Enhancement
of suggestibility and imaginative ability with nitrous oxide.
Psychopharmacology,
Download PDF from HypnosisAndSuggestion.org (0.4 MB)
Whorwell P. J., Prior A, Faragher E.B. (1984).
Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of severe refractory
irritable-bowel syndrome.The Lancet, 2: 1232-4.
Wickless, C., Kirsch, I. (1989). Effects of verbal
and experiential expectancy manipulations on hypnotic susceptibility. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 762-768.
View abstract
Wickramasekera II, I. E., Szlyk, J. P.
(2003). Could empathy be a predictor of hypnotic ability? International Journal
of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 51(4), 390-399.
Wik, G., Fischer, H., Bragee, B., Finer, B.,
Fredrikson, M. (1999). Functional anatomy of hypnotic analgesia: a PET study of
patients with fibromyalgia. European Journal of Pain, 3, 7-12.
Willard, R. D. (1977). Breast enlargement through
visual imagery and hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 19(4),
195-200.
Willoch, F., Rosen, G., Tolle, T. R., Oye, I.,
Wester, H. J., Berner, N., Schwaiger, M., Bartenstein, P. (2000). Phantom limb
in the human brain: unravelling neural circuitries of phantom limb sensations
using Positron Emission Tomography. Annals of Neurology, 48, 842-849.
Wilson, S., Maddison, T., Roberts, L., Greenfield,
S., Singh, S. (2006). Systematic review: the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in
the management of irritable bowel syndrom. Alimentary Pharmacology and
Theerapeutics, 24, 769-780.
Read abstract
Woody, E., Bowers, K. (1994). A frontal assault on
dissociated control. In: Lynn, S. J., Rhue, J. W. (Eds.), Dissociation: Clinical
and Theoretical Perspectives. Guilford Press, New York, USA, pp. 52-79.
Woody, E. Z., Sadler, P. (2008). Dissociation
theories of hypnosis. In M. R. Nash & A. J. Barnier (eds). The Oxford
Handbook of Hypnosis: Theory, Research and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Yapko, M. D. (2010). Hypnosis in the treatment of
depression: An overdue approach for encouraging skillful mood management.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 58(2), 137-146.
Zachariae, R., Andersen, O. K., Bjerring, P.,
Jorgensen, M. M. (1998). Effects of an opioid antagonist on pain intensity and
withdrawal reflexes during induction of hypnotic analgesia in high- and
low-hypnotizable volunteers. European Journal of Pain, 2, 25-34.
institutional access can get access to them. If you want a free copy of any of these articles your best bet is to email the author and ask for a reprint - most are happy to oblige. Some links may become broken or dormant over time if article and papers are removed from various sites.
Abbot, N. C., Stead, L.F., White, A. R., Barnes, J. (1998) Hypnotherapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic
Reviews, Issue 2. Art. No.: CD001008. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD001008
Alladin, A. (2009). Evidence-based cognitive hypnotherapy for depression. Contemporary Hypnosis, 26(4). 245-262.
Allison, D. B., Faith, M. S. (1996). Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy for obesity: A meta-analytic reappraisal. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 513-516.
Banyai, E. I., Hilgard, E. R. (1976). A comparison of active-alert hypnotic induction with traditional relaxation induction.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 85(2), 218-224.
Bär, K. J., Gaser, C., Nenadic, I., Sauer, H. (2002). Transient activation of a somatosensory area in painful hallucinations shown by
fMRI. NeuroReport, 13(6), 1-4.
Barabasz, M., Spiegel, D. (1989). Hypnotizability and weight loss in obese subjects. International Journal of Eating Disorders, 8,
335-341.
Barber, J., Donaldson, D., Ramras, S., Allen, G. D. (1979). The relationship between nitrous oxide conscious sedation and the
hypnotic state. Journal of the American Dental Association, 99(4), 624-626.
Barber, T. X., Wilson, S. C. (1978). The Barber Suggestibility Scale and the Creative Imagination Scale: Experimental and
clinical applications. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 21: 84-108.
Barnier, A. J. (2002). Post-hypnotic amnesia for autobiographical episodes: a laboratory model of functional amnesia?
Psychological Science, 13: 232-7.
Barnier, A. M., McConkey, K. M. (2004). Defining and identifying the highly hypnotizable person. In: M. Heap, R. J. Brown, D. A.
Oakley (Eds.), The Highly Hypnotizable Person. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Barnier, A. J., McConkey, K. M. (2003). Hypnosis, human nature and complexity: integrating neuroscience approaches into hypnosis
research. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 51:282-308.
Barnier, A. J., Nash, M. R. (2008). Introduction: a roadmap for explanation, a working definition. In M. R. Nash & A. J. Barnier
(eds). The Oxford Handbook of Hypnosis: Theory, Research and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Barrios, A. A. (2001). A theory of hypnosis based on principles of conditioning and inhibition. Contemporary Hypnosis, 18, 163-202.
Beck, A. T., Alford, B. A. (2009). Depression: Causes and treatment. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press
Benham, G., Bowers, S., Nash, M., Muenchen, R. (1998). Self-fulfilling prophecy and hypnotic response are not the same thing.
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 1604-1613.
Bernstein, E. M., & Putnam, F. W. (1986). Development, reliability, and validity of a dissociation scale. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 174, 727–735.
Blakemore, S-J., Oakley, D. A., Frith, C. D. (2003). Delusions of alien control in the human brain. Neuropsychologia, 41:1058-67.
Bolocofsky, D. N., Spinler, D., Coulthard-Morris, L. (1985). Effectiveness of hypnosis as an adjunct to behavioral weight management. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 41, 35-41.
Borkovec, T. D., Fowles, D. C. (1973). Controlled investigation of the effects of progressive and hypnotic relaxation on insomnia.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 82(1), 153-158.
Bornstein, P. H., Devine, D. A. (1980). Covert modeling-hypnosis in the treatment of obesity. Psychotherapy: Theory, Research,
and Practice, 17, 272-276.
Bowers, K. S. (1992). Imagination and dissociation in hypnotic responding. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Hypnosis, 40, 253-275.
Bowers, K. S. (1993). The Waterloo-Stanford Group C (WSGC) scale of hypnotic susceptibility: Normative and comparative data.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 41, 35-46.
Bowers, K. S. (1998). Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form C: Manual and Response Booklet. International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 46(3), 250-268.
Braffman, W., Kirsch, I. (2001). Reaction time as a predictor of imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability. Contemporary
Hypnosis, 18(3), 107-119.
Braid, J. (1943). Neurohypnology or the rationale of nervous sleep considered in relation with animal magnetism. London.
British Psychological Society. (2001). The Nature of Hypnosis: A report prepared by a Working Party at the request of the
Professional Affairs Board of the British Psychological Society. Download paper from BPS website View PDF (0.2 MB)
Brown, R. J. (1999). An integrative cognitive theory of suggestion and hypnosis. Unpublished PhD thesis, University College London.
Brown, R. J., Oakley, D. A. (2004). An integrative cognitive theory of hypnosis and hypnotizability. In: M. Heap, R. J. Brown, D. A. Oakley (Eds.), The Highly Hypnotizable Person. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Bryant, R. A., Kourch, M. (2001). Hypnotically-induced emotional numbing. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 49, 220-230.
Bryant, R. A. (2005). Hypnotic emotional numbing: A study of implicit emotion. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 53, 26-36.
Bryant, R. A., Kapur, A. (2006). Hypnotically-induced emotional numbing: The roles of hypnosis and
hypnotizability. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 54(3), 281-291.
Cash, T. F., Brown, T. A. (1987). Body image in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Behaviour Modification, 11(4), 487-521.
Cloninger, C. R., Svrakic, D. M., Przybeck, T. R. (1993). A psychobiological model of temperament and character. Archives of General Psychiatry, 50(12), 975-990.
Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Cojan, Y., Waber, L., Schwartz, S., Rossier, L., Forster, A., Vuilleumier, P. (2009). The brain under self-control: Modulation of
inhibitory and monitoring cortical networks during hypnotic paralysis. Neuron, 62, 862-875.
Link to abstract on PubMed
Council, J. R. (1993). Context effects in personality research. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2, 31-4.
Council, J. R., Kirsch, I., Grant, D. L. (1996). Imagination, expectancy, and hypnotic responding. In: R. G. Kunzendorf, N. P.
Spanos and B. Wallace (Eds.), Hypnosis and Imagination (pp. 41-65), New York: Baywood.
Covino, N. A., Bottari, M. (2001). Hypnosis, behavioral theory, and smoking cessation. Journal of Dental Education, 65(4), 340-347.
Crawford, H. J., Gruzelier, J. H. (1992). A midstream view of the neuropsychophysiology of hypnosis: recent research and future directions. In: Fromm, E., Nash, M. (Eds.), Contemporary Hypnosis Research. Guilford Press, New York, USA, pp. 227-266.
Crawford, H. J., Gur, R. C., Skolnick, B., Gur, R. E., Benson, D. M. (1993). Effects of hypnosis on regional cerebral blood flow during ischemic pain with and without suggested hypnotic analgesia.
International Journal of Psychophysiology, 15, 181-195.
de Groh, M. (1989). Correlates of hypnotic
susceptibility. In: N. P. Spanos., J. F. Chaves. Hypnosis: The Cognitive
Behavioural Perspective. New York: Prometheus Books.
Deckert, G. H., West, L. J. (1963). The problem of
hypnotizability: A review. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Hypnosis, 11, 205-235.
Deeprose, C., Andrade, J. (2006). Is priming
during anesthesia unconscious? Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 1-23.doi:10.1016/j.concog.2005.05.003
Derbyshire, S. W. G., Whalley, M. G., Stenger, V. A., Oakley, D. A. (2004). Cerebral activation during hypnotically induced and
imagined pain. NeuroImage, 27: 969-78.
View PDF (0.5 MB)
Derbyshire, S. W. G., Whalley, M. G., Oakley, D. A. (2008). Fibromyalgia pain and its modulation by hypnotic and non-hypnotic
suggestion: An fMRI analysis. European Journal of Pain (in press)
View PDF (0.5 MB)
Deyoub, P. L., Wilkie, R. (1980). Suggestion with and without hypnotic induction in a weight reduction program. International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 28, 333-340.
Dienes, Z., Brown, E., Hutton, S., Kirsch, I., Mazzoni, G., Wright, D. B. (2009). Hypnotic suggestibility, cognitive
inhibition, and dissociation. Consciousness and Cognition, 18, 837-847.
Download paper
Dienes, Z., & Perner, J. (2007). The cold control theory of hypnosis. In G. Jamieson (Ed.), Hypnosis and conscious states:
The cognitive neuroscience perspective. Oxford University Press, pp 293-314.
Egner, T., Jamieson, G., Gruzelier, J. (2005).
Hypnosis decouples cognitive control from conflict monitoring processes of the frontal lobe. NeuroImage, 27, 969-978.
Emmons, W. H., Simon, C. W. (1955). The non-recall of material presented during sleep. The American Journal of Psychology, 69,
76-81
Erhard, H. W., Mendl, M., Christiansen, S. B. (1999). Individual differences in tonic immobility may reflect behavioural
strategies. Applied Animal Behaviour Science, 64, 31-46.
Erickson, M. H. (1954). Hypnotism. In Encyclopedia Britannica, 14th Edition.
Eriksen, B. A., Eriksen, C. W. (1974). Effects of noise letters upon the identification of a traget letter in a nonsearch task.
Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143-149.
Faith, M., Ray, W. J. (1994). Hypnotizability and dissociation in a college age population: orthogonal individual differences.
Personality and Individual Differences, 17, 211-216.
Faymonville, M. E., Mambourg, P. H., Joris, J., Vrijens, B., Fissette, J. Albert, A., Lamy, M. (1997). Psychological approaches
during conscious sedation. Hypnosis versus stress reducing strategies: a prospective randomized study. Pain, 73, 361-367.
Faymonville, M. E., Laureys, S., Degueldre, C., Fiore, G. D., Luxen, A., Franck, G., Lamy, M., Maquet, P. (2000). Neural
mechanisms of antinociceptive effects of hypnosis. Anesthesiology, 92,1257-1267.
Faymonville, M. E., Roediger, L., Fiore, G. D., Delgueldre, C., Phillips, C., Lamy, M., Luxen, A., Maquet, P., Laureys, S.
(2003). Increased cerebral functional connectivity underlying the antinociceptive effects of hypnosis. Cognitive Brain Research, 17, 255-262.
Flammer, E., Bongartz, W. (2003). On the efficacy of hypnosis: A meta-analytic study. Contemporary Hypnosis, 20, 179-197.
Read abstract
Folz, E. L., While, L. E. (1962). Pain "relief" by frontal cingulotomy. Journal of Neurosurgery, 19: 89-100.
aFromm, E. (1979). The nature of hypnosis and other altered states of consciousness: An ego-psychological theory. In E. Fromm and R.
Shor (eds), Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives (pp.81-103), New York: Aldine.
Fromm, E. (1990). Self-hypnosis: The Chicago paradigm. New York: The Guildford Press
Fromm, E. (1992). An ego-psychological theory of hypnosis. In E. Fromm and M. Nash (Eds), Contemporary Hypnosis Research (pp.
131-148), London, Guilford Press.
Gallup, G. G. (1974). Animal hypnosis: factual status of a fictional concept. Psychological Bulletin, 81(11), 836-853.
Gandhi, B., Oakley, D. A. (2005). Does 'hypnosis' by any other name smell as sweet? The efficacy of 'hypnotic' inductions depends on
the label 'hypnosis'. Consciousness and Cognition, 14, 304-315.
Read abstract
Gheorghiou, V. A., Polczyk, R., Kappeller, C.(2003). The Warmth Suggestibility Scale—a procedure for measuring the
influence of suggestion on warmth sensations. Personality and Individual Differences, 34, 219-234.
Gibson, H. B., Corcoran, M. E., Curran, J. D. (1977). Hypnotic susceptibility and personality: The consequences of diazepam
and the sex of the subjects. British Journal of Psychology, 68, 51-59.
Goldstein, A., Hilgard, E. R. (1975). Failure of opiate antagonist Naloxone to modify hypnotic analgesia. Proceedings of the
National Acadmeny of Sciences, USA, 6, 2041-2043.
View abstract
Gorassini, D. R., Spanos, N. P. (1986). A cognitive-social skills approach to the successful modification of hypnotic
suggestibility. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 50, 1004-1012.
Gorassini, D. R. (2004). Enhancing hypnotizability. In M. Heap, R. J., Brown, D. A. Oakley. The Highly Hypnotizable
Person, London: Routledge.
Green, J. (2006) The five factor model of personality and hypnotizability: little variance in common. Contemporary Hypnosis, 21(4),
161-168
Green, J. P., Barabasz, A. F., Barrett, D. Montgomery, G. H. (2005). Forging ahead: the 2003 APA Division 30 definition of
hypnosis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
Green, J. P., Lynn, S. J. (2000). Hypnosis and suggestion-based approaches to smoking cessation. International Journal of
Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48(2), 195-223.
Gruzelier, J. H. (1990). Neurophysiological investigations of hypnosis: cerebral laterality and beyond. In: Van Dyck, R.,
Spinhoven, P. H., Van der Does, A. J. W. (Eds.), Hypnosis: Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice. Free University Press, pp. 38-51.
Gruzeler, J. H. (1998). A working model of the neurophysiology of hypnosis: A review of evidence. Contemporary Hypnosis, 15,3-21.
Gudjonsson, G. H. (1984). A new scale of interrogative suggestibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 5(3), 303-314.
Halligan, P. W., Athwal, B. S., Oakley, D. A., Frackowiak, R. S. J. (2000). The functional anatomy of a hypnotic paralysis:
implications for conversion hysteria. The Lancet, 356: 986-7.
Halsband, U., Mueller, S., Hinterberger, T., Strickner, S. (2009). Plasticity changes in the brain in hypnosis and
meditation. Contemporary Hypnosis, 26(4), 194-215.
Hargadon, R., Bowers, K. S. Woody, E. Z. (1995). Does counterpain imagery mediate hypnotic analgesia?
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 104(3), 508-516.
View abstract
Hawkins, R. M. F. (2001). A systematic meta-review of hypnosis as an empirically supported treatment for pain. Pain Reviews, 8,47-73.
View abstract
Heap, M. (1996) The nature of hypnosis. The Psychologist, 9 (11), 498-501.
Heap, M., Brown, R. J., Oakley, D. A. (Eds.) (2004). The Highly Hypnotizable Person. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Heap, M., Aravind, K. (2002). Hartland's medical and dental hypnosis (4th edition). London: Harcourt.
Hilgard E. R. (1965). Hypnotic susceptibility. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World.
Hilgard, E. R. (1991). A neodissociation interpretation of hypnosis. In SJ Lynn and JW Rhue, eds. Theories of hypnosis:
current models and perspectives. pp. 83-104. New York, Guilford Press.
Hilgard, E. R. (1973). A neurodissociation interpretation of pain reduction in hypnosis. Psychological Review, 80,396-411.
Holmes, E. A., Brown, R. J., Mansell, W., Fearon, R.P., Hunter, E. C. M., Frasquilho, F., Oakley, D. (2005). Are there two
qualitatively distinct forms of dissociation? A review and some clinical implications. Clinical Psychology Review, 225, 1-23.
Horton, J. E., Crawford, H. J., Harrington, G., Downs, J. H. (2004). Increased anterior corpus callosum size associated with
hypnotizability and the ability to control pain. Brain, 127(8), 1741-1747.
Read paper
Houghton L. A., Heyman D.J., Whorwell P.J. (1996).
Symptomatology, quality of life and economic features of irritable bowel
syndrome--the effect of hypnotherapy. Aliment Pharmacol Ther, 10:1, 91-5.
Hull, C. L. (1933). Hypnosis and suggestibility: An experimental approach. New York: Applegate.
Hurwitz, T. D., Mahowald, M. W., Schenck, C. H., Schulter, J. L., Bundlie, S. R. (1991). A retrospective outcome study and review
of hypnosis as treatment of adults with sleepwalking and sleep terror. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 179(4), 228-233.
Hutchinson-Philips, S., Gow, K.,Jamieson, G. A. (2007). Hypnotizability, eating behaviours, attitudes, and
concerns: A literature survey. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55, 84-113.
Iani, C., Ricci, F., Gherri, E., Rubichi, S. (2006). Hypnotic suggestion modulates cognitive conflict: The case of the Flanker
compatibility effect. Psychological Science, 17(8), 721-727.
Jacobson, N. O., Silfverskiold, N. P. (1973). A controlled study of a hypnotic method in the treatment of alcoholism, with
evaluation by objective criteria. British Journal of Addiction, 68, 25-31.
Jamieson, G. A. (2007). Hypnosis and conscious states: the cognitive neuroscience perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jamieson, G. A., Woody, E. (2007). Dissociated control as a paradigm for cognitive neuroscience research and theorizing in
hypnosis. In G. A. Jamieson (Ed), Hypnosis and conscious states: the cognitive neuroscience perspective. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Jamieson, G. A., Sheehan, P. W. (2002). A critical evaluation of the relationship between sustained attentional abilities and
hypnotic susceptibility. Contemporary Hypnosis, 19, 62-74.
Kallio, S., Revonsuo, A., Hamalainen, H., Markela, J., Gruzelier, J. H. (2001). Anterior brain functions and hypnosis: a test of
the frontal hypothesis. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 49, 95-108.
Keefe, F. J., Lumley, M., Anderson, T., Lynch, T., Studts, J. L., Carson, K. L. (2001). Pain and emotion: new research directions.
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 57(4); 587-607.
Kelly, S. F., Fisher, S., Kelly, R. J. (1978).Effects of cannabis intoxication on primary suggestibility. Psychopharmacology,
56, 217-219.
Kihlstrom, J. F. (2008). The doman of hypnosis revisited. In M. R. Nash & A. J. Barnier (eds). The Oxford Handbook of
Hypnosis: Theory, Research and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kihlstrom, J. F. (1985). Hypnosis. Annual Review of Psychology, 36, 385-418.
Kirsch, I. (1996). Hypnotic enhancement of cognitive-behavioural weight-loss treatments - another meta-reanalysis. Journal
of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 64, 517-519.
Kirsch, I., Cardeña, E., Derbyshire, S., Dienes, Z., Heap, M., Kallio, S., Mazzoni, G., Naish, P., Oakley, D., Potter, C., Walters,
V., Whalley, M. (2011). Definitions of Hypnosis and Hypnotizability and their Relation to Suggestion and Suggesitibility: A Consensus Statement.
Contemporary Hypnosis (in press)
Read draft version of paper
Kirsch, I., Mazzoni, G., Montgomery, G. H. (2007).
Remembrance of hypnosis past. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 49,171-178.
Kirsch, I., Montgomery, G., & Sapirstein, G. (1995). Hypnosis as an adjunct to cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy: A
meta-analysis. Journal of Consulting & Clinical Psychology, 63, 214-220.
Kirsch, I., Lynn, S. J. (1997). Hypnotic involuntariness and the automaticity of everyday life. American Journal of
Clinical Hypnosis, 40, 329-348.
Kirsch, I., Wickless, C., Moffitt, K. H. (1999). Expectancy and suggestibility: Are the effects of environmental enhancement due
to detection? International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 47, 40-45.
View abstract
Kirsch, I., Braffman, W. (2001). Imaginative suggestibility and hypnotizability. Current Directions in Psychological Science,
4(2), 57-61.
View abstract
Knox, V. J., Morgan, A. H., Hilgard, E. R. (1974). Pain and suffering in ischemia: the paradox of hypnotically suggested anesthesia
as contradicted by reports from the 'hidden observer'. Archives of General Psychiatry, 30, 840-847
Kosslyn, S. M., Thompson, W. L., Constantini-Ferrando, M. F., Alpert, N. M., Spiegel, D. (2000). Hypnotic visual
illusion alters colour processing in the brain. American Journal of Psychiatry, 157: 1279-84.
View abstract and download PDF from AJP
Laidlaw, T. M., Dwivedi, P., Naito, A., Gruzelier, J. H. (2005). Low self-directedness (TCI), mood, schizotypy and hypnotic
susceptibility. Personality and Individual Differences, 39, 469-480.
View abstract
Lang, E. V., Rosen, M. P. (2002). Cost analysis of adjunct hypnosis with sedation during outpatient interventional radiologic
procedures. Radiology, 222, pp. 375-82.
Lang, E. V., Benotsch, E. G., Fick, L. J., Lutgendorf, S., Berbaum, M. L., Berbaum, K. S., Logan, H., Spiegel, D. (2000). Adjunctive
non-pharmacological analgesia for invasive medical procedures: a randomized trial. The Lancet, 355, 1486-1490.
View abstract
Lichtenberg, P., Bachner-Melman, R., Gritsenko,I., Ebstein, R. P. (2000). Exploratory association study between
catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) high/low enzyme activity polymorphism and hypnotizability. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 96(6), 771-774.
London, P. (1962). Children's Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Lynn, S. J., Rhue, J. W. (1988). 'Fantasy-proneness:Hypnosis, developmental antecedents, and psychopathology'. American
Psychologist, 43, 35-44.
Lynn, S. J., Rhue, J. W., Weekes, J. (1990). An integrative model of hypnotic involuntariness. In van Dyck, Spinhoven, Van der
Does, Van Rood, De Moor (Eds)., Hypnosis: Current Theory, Research and Practice. Amsterdam: VU University Press.
Lynn, S. J., Myer, E., Mackillop, J. (2000). The systematic study of negative post-hypnotic effects: Research hypnosis, clinical
hypnosis and stage hypnosis. Contemporary Hypnosis, 17, 127-131.
Lynn, S. J., Kirsch, I., Barabasz, A., Cardeña, E.,& Patterson, D. (2000). Hypnosis as an empirically supported clinical
intervention: The state of the evidence and a look to the future. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48, 235-255.
Maquet, P., Faymonville, M. E., Degueldre, C., Delfiore, G., Franck, G., Luxen, A., Lamy, M. (1999). Functional neuroanatomy of
hypnotic state. Biological Psychiatry, 45, 327-333.
Maser, J. D., Gallup, G. G. (1974). Tonic immobility in the chicken: Catalepsy potentiation by uncontrollable shock and alleviation
by imipramine. Psychosomatic Medicine, 36(3), 199-205.
Mendelsohn, A., Chalamish, Y., Solomonovich, A., Dudai, Y. (2008). Mesmerizing memories: Brain substrates of episodic memory
suppression in post-hypnotic amnesia. Neuron, 57, 159-170.
Mesmer, F. A. (1766). Dissertatio Physico-Medica de Planetarium Influxu. Vindobona
Miller, M. F., Barabasz, A. F., Barabasz, M. (1991). Effects of active alert and relaxation hypnotic inductions on cold presser pain.
Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 100(2), 223-226.
View abstract
Montgomery, G. H., Bovbjerg, D. H., Schnur, J. B., David, D., Goldfarb, A., Weltz, C. R., Schechter, C., Graff-Zivin, J.,
Tatrow, K., Price, D. D., Siverstein, J. H. (2007). A randomized clinical trial of a brief hypnosis intervention to control side effects in breast surgery
patients. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 99, 1304-1312.
View abstract
Montgomery, G. H., David, D., Winkel, G., Siverstein, J. H., Bovbjerg, D. H. (2002). The effectiveness of adjunctive
hypnosis with surgical patients: A meta-analysis. Anesthesia and Analgesia, 94(6), 1639-1645.
View abstract and download PDF from A&A
Montgomery, GH., DuHamel, KN., Redd WH. (2000). A meta-analysis of hypnotically induced analgesia: how effective is hypnosis?
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 48(2), 138-53.
Morgan, A. H. (1973). The heritability of hypnotic susceptibility in twins. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 82, 55-61.
Müller, K., Bacht, K., Schramm, S., Seitz, R. J. (2012). The facilitating effect of clinical hypnosis on motor imagery: An fMRI
study. Behavioural Brain Research, 231, 164-169.
Nash, M., Benham, G. (2005). The truth and hype of hypnosis. Scientific American
(Read the article on Scientific American website)
Norman, D.A. and Shallice, T. (1980/1986). Attention to action: Willed and automatic control of behaviour. Centre for Human
Information Processing (Technical Report #99). Reprinted in revised form in Davidson, R.J., Schwartz, G.E., and Shapiro, D. (Eds.) (1986), Consciousness and
Self-Regulation (Volume 4), New York: Plenum.
Oakley, D. A. (1999). Hypnosis and consciousness: A structural model. Contemporary Hypnosis, 16, 215-223.
Download PDF from HypnosisUnitUK.com (2.1 MB)
Oakley, D. A. (2006). Hypnosis as a tool in research: experimental psychopathology. Contemporary Hypnosis, 23(1): 3-14.
Download PDF from HypnosisUnitUK.com (4.2 MB)
Oakley, D. A., Deeley. Q., Halligan, P. W. (2007). Hypnotic depth and response to suggestion under standardized conditions and
during fMRI scanning. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 55(1), 32-58.
Orne, M. T. (1962). On the social psychology of the psychological experiment: With particular reference to demand characteristics
and their implications. American Psychologist, 17(11), 776-783.
Orne, M. T., Evans, F. J. (1965). Social control in the psychological experiment: Antisocial behaviour and hypnosis. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 95, 189-200.
Orne, M. T., & Evans, F. J. (1966). Inadvertent termination of hypnosis with hypnotized and simulating subjects. International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 14, 61-78.
Read full article at UPenn.edu
Palsson O.S., Turner M.J., Whitehead W.E. (2006).
Hypnosis home treatment for irritable bowel syndrome: a pilot study.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 54(1):85-99.
Patterson, D. R., Jensen, M. P. (2003). Hypnosis
and clinical pain. Psychological Bulletin, Vol. 129, pp. 495-521.
Pekala, R. J., Maurer, R., Kumar, V. K., Elliott, N.
C., Masten, E., Moon, E., Salinger, M. (2004). Self-hypnosis relapse prevention
training with chronic drug/alcohol users: effects of self-esteem, affect, and
relapse. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 46(4), 281-297.
Piccione, C., Hilgard, E. R., Zimbardo, P. G.
(1989). On the degree of stability and measured hypnotizability over a 25-year
period. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 56, 289-295.
Download PDF from Zimbardo.com (1.6 MB)
Raij, T. T., Numminen, J., Narvarnen, S., Hiltunen,
J., Hari, R. (2005). Brain correlates of subjective reality of physically and
psychologically induced pain. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of
the United States of America, 102, 2147-2151.
View abstract and download PDF from PNAS (0.5 MB)
Raij, T. T., Numminen, J., Narvarnen, S., Hiltunen,
J., Hari, R. (2009). Strength of prefrontal activation predicts intensity of
suggestion-induced pain. Human Brain Mapping, 30, 2890-2897.
Rainville, P., Duncan, G. H., Price, D. D.,
Carrier, B., Bushnell, M. C. (1997). Pain affect encoded in the human anterior
cingulate but not somatosensory cortex. Science, 277: 988-71.
Rainville, P., Hofbauer, R. K., Paus, T., Duncan,
G. H., Bushnell, M. C., Price, D. D. (1999). Cerebral mechanisms of hypnotic
induction and suggestion. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 11(1), 110-125.
View abstract at PubMed
Rainville, P., Hofbauer, R. K., Bushnell, M. C.,
Dunca, G. H., Price, D. D. (2002). Hypnosis modulates activity in brain
structures involved in the regulation of consciousness. Journal of Cognitive
Neuroscience, 14(6), 887-901.
View abstract at PubMed
Raz, A. (2008). Genetics and neuroimaging of
attention and hypnotizability may elucidate placebo. International Journal of
Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 56, 99-116.
Raz, A., Shapiro, T., Fan, J., POsner, M. I. (2002).
Hypnotic suggestion and the modulation of Stroop interference. Archives of
General Psychiatry, 59, 1155-1161.
Raz, A., Fan, J., Posner, M. I. (2005). Hypnotic
suggestion reduces conflict in the human brain. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 102, 9978-9983.
View abstract and download PDF from PNAS (0.9 MB)
Raz, A., Kirsch, I., Pollard, J., Nitkin-Kaner, Y.
(2006). Suggestion reduces the Stroop effect. Psychologcal Science, 17(2),
91-95.
Reyher, J. (1962). A paradigm for determining the
clinical relevance of hypnotically induced psychopathology. Psychological
Bullletin, 59: 344-352.
Richards, J. M., Gross, J. J. (2000). Emotion
regulation and memory: The cognitive costs of keeping one's cool. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 79(3), 410-424
Roberts, L., Wilson, S., Singh, S., Roalfe, A.,
Greenfield, S. (2006). Gut-directed hypnotherapy for irritable bowel syndrome:
piloting a primary care-based randomised controlled trial. British Journal of
General Practice, 56, 115-121.
Read the abstract and full text at the British Journal of General Practice
Röder, C. H., Michal, M., Overbeck, van de Ven, V.
G., Linden, D. E. J. (2007). Pain response in depersonalization: a functional
imaging study using hypnosis in healthy subjects. Psychotherapy and
Psychosomatics, 76, 115-121.
View abstract at PubMed
Roth, A., Fonagy, P. (2005). What works for whom? A critical review of psychotherapy research. New York: The Guilford Press.
Ruehle, B. L., Zamansky, H. S. (1997). The experience of effortlessness in hypnosis: perceived or real? International
Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 45(2), 144-157.
View abstract at PubMed
Schiffrin, R. M., Schneider, W. (1977).
Controlled and automatic human information-processing: II. Perceptual learning,
automatic attending, and a general theory. Psychological Review, 84,
127-190.
Schulz-Stübner, S., Krings, T., Meister, I.
G., Rex, S., Thron, A., Rossaint, R. (2004). Clinical hypnosis modulates
functional magnetic resonance imaging signal intensities and pain perception in
a thermal stimulation paradigm. Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 29(6),
549-556.
Shekelle, P., Woolf, S., Eccles, M., Grimshaw, J.
(2000). Developing guidelines. In M. Eccles & J. M. Grimshaw (Eds). Clinical
Guidelines: From Conception to Use. Abingdon: Radcliffe Medical.
Shergill, S. S., Brammer, M. J., Williams, S. C.
R., Murray, R. M., McGuire, P. K. (2000). Mapping auditory hallucinations in
schizophrenia using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Archives of General
Psychiatry, 57, 1033-1038.
Shor, R. E., Orne, E. C. (1962). Harvard Group Scale
of Hypnotic Susceptibility: Form A. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto,
California, USA.
Silagy C, Lancaster T, Stead L, Mant D, Fowler G.
(2004). Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of
Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 3. Art. No.: CD000146. DOI:
10.1002/14651858.CD000146.pub2
Read abstract
Silbersweig, D. A., Stera, E., Frith, C.,
Cahill, C., Holmes, A., Grootoonk, S., Seaward, J., McKenna, P., Chua, S. E.,
Schnorr, L., Jones, T., Frackowiak, R. S. J. (1995). A functional neuroanatomy
of hallucinations in schizophrenia. Nature, 378(9), 176-179.
Sjoberg, B. M., Hollister, L. E. (1965). The
effects of psychomimetic drugs on primary suggestibility. Psychopharmacology, 8,
251-262.
Spanos, N. P., Stam, H. J., D'Eon, J. L., Pawlak, A.
E., Radtke-Bodorik, H. L. (1980). Effect of social-psychological variables on
hypnotic analgesia. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 34(4),
737-750.
Spanos, N. P. (1983). The Carleton University
Responsiveness to Suggestion Scale (Group Administration). Unpublished
manuscript. Carleton University: Ottowa, Ontario, Canada.
Spanos, N. P. (1986). Hypnosis and the modification
of hypnotic susceptibility: A social psychological perspective. In P. Naish
(ed.), What is hypnosis? (pp. 85-120), Philadelphia: Open University Press.
Spanos, N. P., Menary, E., Gabora, N. J., DuBreuil,
S. C., Dewhirst, B. (1991). Secondary identity enactments during hypnotic
past-life regression: A sociocognitive perspective. Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, 61, 308-320.
Spelke, E., Hirst, W., Neisser, U. (1976). Skills of
divided attention. Cognition, 4, 215-230.
Spiegel, H. (1970). A single treatment method to
stop smoking using ancillary self-hypnosis. Intervational Journal of Clinical
and Experimental Hypnosis, 26, 22-29.
Spiegel, H. (1974). Manual for hypnotic
induction profile : eye-roll levitation method. New York: Soni Medica.
Spinhoven, P., Baak, D., van Dyck, R., et al
(1988). The effectiveness of an authoritarian versus permissive style of
hypnotic communication. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental
Hypnosis, 36, 182-191.
Staib, A. R., Logan, D. R. (1977). Hypnotic
stimulation of breast growth. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 19(4),
201-208.
Stead LF, Perera R, Lancaster T,. Telephone
counselling for smoking cessation. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2006,
Issue 3. Art. No.: CD002850. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002850.pub2
Read abstract
Stroop, J. R. (1935). Studies of interference in
serial verbal reactions. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 18, 643-661.
Szechtman, H., Woody, E., Bowers, K. S., Nahmias,
C. (1998). Where the imaginal appears real: a positron emission tomography study
of auditory hallucinations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 95:
1956-60.
View abstract and download PDF at PNAS (0.3 MB)
Tellegen, A. (1978/1979). On measures and
conceptions of hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 21, 219-237.
Tellegen, A., & Atkinson, G. (1974). Openness
to absorbing and self-altering experiences ("absorption"), a trait related to
hypnotic susceptibility. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 83(3), 268-277.
Vanhaudenhuyse, A., Boly, M., Balteau, E.,
Schnakers, C., Moonen, G., Luxen, A., Lamy, M., Degueldre, C., Brichant, J. F.,
Maquet, P., Laureys, S., Faymonville, M. E. (2009). Pain and non-pain processing
during hypnosis: A thalium-YAG event-related fMRI study. NeuroImage, 47,
1047-1054.
Völgyesi, F. A. (1966). Hypnosis of man and
animals. London: Billing & Sons Ltd.
Wadden, T. A., Flaxman, J. (1981). Hypnosis and
weight loss: A preliminary study. International Journal of Clinical and
Experimental Hypnosis, 29, 162-173.
Wegner, D. M., Erber, R., Zanakos, S. (1993). Ironic
processes in the mental control of mood and mood-related thoughts. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 65, 1093-1104.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1959).
Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms A and B. Consulting Psychologists
Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1962).
Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms C. Consulting Psychologists Press,
Palo Alto, California, USA.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1963).
Stanford Profile Scales of Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms I and II.
Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Weitzenhoffer, A. M., Higard, E. R. (1967).
Revised Stanford Profile Scales of Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale: Forms I and
II. Consulting Psychologists Press, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Wetizenhoffer, A. M. (1980). Hypnotic
susceptibility revisited. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 22,
130-146.
Whalley, M. G., Brooks, G. B. (2009). Enhancement
of suggestibility and imaginative ability with nitrous oxide.
Psychopharmacology,
Download PDF from HypnosisAndSuggestion.org (0.4 MB)
Whorwell P. J., Prior A, Faragher E.B. (1984).
Controlled trial of hypnotherapy in the treatment of severe refractory
irritable-bowel syndrome.The Lancet, 2: 1232-4.
Wickless, C., Kirsch, I. (1989). Effects of verbal
and experiential expectancy manipulations on hypnotic susceptibility. Journal of
Personality and Social Psychology, 57, 762-768.
View abstract
Wickramasekera II, I. E., Szlyk, J. P.
(2003). Could empathy be a predictor of hypnotic ability? International Journal
of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 51(4), 390-399.
Wik, G., Fischer, H., Bragee, B., Finer, B.,
Fredrikson, M. (1999). Functional anatomy of hypnotic analgesia: a PET study of
patients with fibromyalgia. European Journal of Pain, 3, 7-12.
Willard, R. D. (1977). Breast enlargement through
visual imagery and hypnosis. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 19(4),
195-200.
Willoch, F., Rosen, G., Tolle, T. R., Oye, I.,
Wester, H. J., Berner, N., Schwaiger, M., Bartenstein, P. (2000). Phantom limb
in the human brain: unravelling neural circuitries of phantom limb sensations
using Positron Emission Tomography. Annals of Neurology, 48, 842-849.
Wilson, S., Maddison, T., Roberts, L., Greenfield,
S., Singh, S. (2006). Systematic review: the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in
the management of irritable bowel syndrom. Alimentary Pharmacology and
Theerapeutics, 24, 769-780.
Read abstract
Woody, E., Bowers, K. (1994). A frontal assault on
dissociated control. In: Lynn, S. J., Rhue, J. W. (Eds.), Dissociation: Clinical
and Theoretical Perspectives. Guilford Press, New York, USA, pp. 52-79.
Woody, E. Z., Sadler, P. (2008). Dissociation
theories of hypnosis. In M. R. Nash & A. J. Barnier (eds). The Oxford
Handbook of Hypnosis: Theory, Research and Practice. Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Yapko, M. D. (2010). Hypnosis in the treatment of
depression: An overdue approach for encouraging skillful mood management.
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 58(2), 137-146.
Zachariae, R., Andersen, O. K., Bjerring, P.,
Jorgensen, M. M. (1998). Effects of an opioid antagonist on pain intensity and
withdrawal reflexes during induction of hypnotic analgesia in high- and
low-hypnotizable volunteers. European Journal of Pain, 2, 25-34.