How Can Brain Activity and Hypnosis Inform Each Other?

Applying P. Teitelbaum's conception of the method of physiological psychology as interlocking stages of analysis and synthesis, the authors examine how studies of brain function can advance the understanding of hypnosis as a psychological process. They consider the exploration of animal analogues of human hypnosis, the study of brain injury in humans as a window on mechanisms underlying hypnosis, the distinct questions that brain-imaging …