To see feelingly: Emotion, motivation, and hypnosis Chapters uri icon

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abstract

  • Abstract In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Weitzenhoffer and Hilgard laid the foundation for modern hypnosis research by devising standardized hypnosis scales. They modified the earlier hypnosis scale of Friedlander and Sarbin (1938) by adding additional comparatively easy test suggestions, particularly direct motor suggestions, resulting in two alternate forms, the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales, Forms A and B (SHSS: A and SHSS: B; Weitzenhoffer and Hilgard 1959). They then devised another hypnosis scale with a better representation of relatively difficult suggestions, such as hallucinations and age regression, resulting in the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C (SHSS: C; Weitzenhoffer and Hilgard 1962). The SHSS: C is now widely regarded as the gold standard of hypnosis research (Woody and Barnier 1996).

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  • 2007