Hypnotic Conflict: A Brief Report

Mallard, David; Bryant, Richard A.

doi:10.1080/00207140600689496

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“…The finding is also consistent with research that has found that a proportion of highs experiencing a hypnotic delusion (Noble and McConkey, 1995; Cox and Barnier, 2009) or posthypnotic amnesia (Kihlstrom et al, 1980; McConkey and Sheehan, 1981; Coe, 1989; Coe and Sluis, 1989) breach their experience in response to challenges. Hypnotic effects require participants to resolve the conflict between objective reality and the suggested experience (McConkey, 1983; Mallard and Bryant, 2006). Challenges both draw attention to and increase this conflict, leading some participants to breach the suggested effect.…”

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Using hypnosis to disrupt face processing: mirrored-self misidentification delusion and different visual media

Connors

Barnier

Coltheart

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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Mirrored-self misidentification delusion is the belief that one’s reflection in the mirror is not oneself. This experiment used hypnotic suggestion to impair normal face processing in healthy participants and recreate key aspects of the delusion in the laboratory. From a pool of 439 participants, 22 high hypnotisable participants (“highs”) and 20 low hypnotisable participants were selected on the basis of their extreme scores on two separately administered measures of hypnotisability. These participants received a hypnotic induction and a suggestion for either impaired (i) self-face recognition or (ii) impaired recognition of all faces. Participants were tested on their ability to recognize themselves in a mirror and other visual media – including a photograph, live video, and handheld mirror – and their ability to recognize other people, including the experimenter and famous faces. Both suggestions produced impaired self-face recognition and recreated key aspects of the delusion in highs. However, only the suggestion for impaired other-face recognition disrupted recognition of other faces, albeit in a minority of highs. The findings confirm that hypnotic suggestion can disrupt face processing and recreate features of mirrored-self misidentification. The variability seen in participants’ responses also corresponds to the heterogeneity seen in clinical patients. An important direction for future research will be to examine sources of this variability within both clinical patients and the hypnotic model.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Using hypnosis to disrupt face processing: mirrored-self misidentification delusion and different visual media

Connors

Barnier

Coltheart

et al. 2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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“…Previous research has shown that conflicting reality information interferes with some hypnotic participants' ability to experience a suggestion (Bryant & McConkey, 1989. For example, in a study of hypnotic blindness, Mallard and Bryant (2006) found that increasing the brightness of a visual stimulus during hypnosis led to participants reporting decreased hypnotic blindness. It thus seems that successful suggestions need to prepare participants that they will be looking at a mirror even if they do not recognise it as such.…”

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Mirror agnosia and the mirrored-self misidentification delusion: A hypnotic analogue

Connors

Cox

Barnier

et al. 2012

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

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“…Hypnosis is not psychotherapy. Hypnotic perceptual and cognitive changes the equilibrium between suggestion, expectation, and task instructions [47][48][49].…”

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confidence: 99%