“…For example, Russell (1979) noted that many bulimic patients reported feelings of depersonalization and derealization during episodes of binging and purging (see also Abraham & Beumont, 1982;Beumont & Abraham, 1983). Similarly, the bulimic patients surveyed by Torem (1986) frequently reported that their binges were involuntary, and accompanied by an amnesia-like loss of time. A number of investigators have found high levels of hypnotizability in bulimic patients (Covino, Jimerson, Walton, Franko & Frankel, 1994;Kranhold, Baumann, & Fichter, 1992;Pettinati, Horne, & Staats, 1985), or in college women with symptoms of abnormal eating (Barabasz, 1991;Groth-Marnat & Shumaker, 1990)-a finding that is relevant because hypnosis is sometimes considered to involve nonpathological dissociative states (Hilgard, 1977), and because high hypnotizability is also found in patients with dissociative disorder (for a review, see Kihlstrom, Glisky, & Angiulo, 1994).…”