Eidetic-like Imagery in Hypnosis: Rare but There

Crawford, Helen J.; Wallace, Benjamin; Nomura, Katsuhiko; Slater, Heidi

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“…Experimental evidence has been provided that highly hypnotizable persons demonstrate greater cognitive flexibility, the ability to shift cognitive strategies and states of awareness, than do lows (e.g., Crawford, 1982a;Crawford & Allen, 1983;Crawford & Gruzelier, 1992;Crawford et al, 1986). Highs can shift from detail to holistic strategies with greater ease than lows (e.g., Crawford & Allen, 1983).…”

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“…In these studies by Wallace and his students, highs were more likely to report holistic, rather than detail, search strategies, similar to what Crawford (198lb) and Crawford and Allen (1983) have described. An intensification of such holistic strategies was found in hypnosis among highs who reported increased holistic processing accompanying increased successive visual discrimination memory (Crawford & Allen, 1983) and eidetic-like memory (Crawford, Wallace, Nomura, & Slater, 1986) performance.…”

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Brain Dynamics and Hypnosis: Attentional and Disattentional Processes

Crawford¹

1994

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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This article reviews recent research findings, expanding an evolving neuropsychophysiological model of hypnosis (Crawford, 1989; Crawford & Gruzelier, 1992), that support the view that highly hypnotizable persons (highs) possess stronger attentional filtering abilities than do low hypnotizable persons, and that these differences are reflected in underlying brain dynamics. Behavioral, cognitive, and neurophysiological evidence is reviewed that suggests that highs can both better focus and sustain their attention as well as better ignore irrelevant stimuli in the environment. It is proposed that hypnosis is a state of enhanced attention that activates an interplay between cortical and subcortical brain dynamics during hypnotic phenomena, such as both attentional and disattentional processes, among others, are important in the experiencing of hypnosis and hypnotic phenomena. Findings from studies of electrocortical activity, event-related potentials, and regional cerebral blood flow during waking and hypnosis are presented to suggest that these attentional differences are reflected in underlying neurophysiological differences in the far fronto-limbic attentional system.

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Brain Dynamics and Hypnosis: Attentional and Disattentional Processes

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1994

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“…Crawford, Wallace, Katsuhiko, and Slater (1985) also reported the reinstatement of eidetic imagery, found in children but not adults, for high but not low hypnotizable participants. Unfortunately, only about 10% of children are eidetic (Walker, Garrett, & Wallace, 1976).…”

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Age Regression: Tailored versus Scripted Inductions

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Christensen

2006

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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The effects of tailored versus scripted hypnotic inductions were tested with the intention of shedding light on age regression phenomena. From an initial pool of 31 volunteers, 10 males and 10 females who scored 3 or better on the Stanford Hypnotic Clinical Scale, participated in this study. Participants were assigned to either scripted or tailored hypnotic induction conditions for regression to age 5. The age specific developmental task was to indicate for each of 10 abstract figure pairs, which of each pair "was upside down". Both groups showed significant focal point dependency. However, the tailored induction group showed significantly greater focal point dependency characteristic of 5-year-old children, in contrast to the scripted induction group. It appears that tailored hypnotic inductions may provide a better avenue for the ego to regulate its own degree of regression. The better match to personality style takes advantage of the naturally occurring ego-syntonic capacities of the participant, thereby facilitating greater hypnotic responsiveness.

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“…It was shown that intensity of both imagery and affect processing depends on hypnotizability (Crawford, Clarke, & Kitner-Triolo, 1996;Crawford, Wallace, Nomura, & Slater, 1986;Gruzelier, 1998Gruzelier, , 2000. Hypnotizability is a stable cognitive personality trait that has high testretest reliability (Piccione, Hilgard, & Zimbardo, 1989) and correlates with imaginative involvement, vividness of imagery, sustained attentional abilities, and effortless experiencing (Crawford, Brown, & Moon, 1993;Gruzelier, 1998;Kumar, Pekala, & Cummings, 1996;Lichtenberg, Bachner-Melman, Ebstein, & Crawford, 2004).…”

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“…Hypnotizability is mainly studied in association with hypnosis, when high hypnotizable persons show enhanced imaginary and holistic processing (Crawford, 1990;Crawford et al, 1986). The number of studies of imagery and emotions in a waking state in subjects with different levels of hypnotizability is smaller than in hypnosis.…”

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The Relationship Between Hypnotizability, Internal Imagery, and Efficiency of Neurolinguistic Programming

Kirenskaya

Novototsky-Vlasov

Chistyakov

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International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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Subjective scoring and autonomic variables (heart rate, skin conduction span) were used to verify the reality of inner experience during recollection of emotionally neutral, positive, and negative past events in 19 high (HH) and 12 low (LH) hypnotizable subjects in hypnotic and nonhypnotic experimental sessions. Also, the influence of hypnotizability on the effectiveness of an imagery-based neurolinguistic programming (NLP) technique was evaluated. Results demonstrated that subjective scores of image vividness and emotional intensity were significantly higher in the HH subjects compared to LH in both sessions. The past-events recollection was followed by increased autonomic activity only in the HH subjects. The NLP procedure was followed by decreased negative emotional intensity in both groups, but autonomic activity decline was observed in the HH subjects and not in the LH.

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Eidetic-like Imagery in Hypnosis: Rare but There

Cited by 15 publications

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Brain Dynamics and Hypnosis: Attentional and Disattentional Processes

Brain Dynamics and Hypnosis: Attentional and Disattentional Processes

Age Regression: Tailored versus Scripted Inductions

The Relationship Between Hypnotizability, Internal Imagery, and Efficiency of Neurolinguistic Programming

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