Hypnotizability of Newly Admitted Psychotic Patients

Friedman, Joseph Joel; Keup, W

doi:10.1016/s0033-3182(63)72579-5

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“…When studies dealing with only waking suggestibility of schizophrenics have been eliminated, only four investigations of hypnotic susceptibility of schizophrenics remain. Two of these (Friedman & Keup, 1963;Wilson, Cormen, & Cole, 1949) report considerable success, with well over half the subjects entering at least a light stage of hypnosis. The other two (Gale & Herman, 19S6;Heath, Hoaken, & Sainz, 1960) reported a considerably smaller percentage of successful inductions, although some schizophrenic patients were found to be susceptible in all studies.…”

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Hypnotic susceptibility of schizophrenic patients.

Kramer

Brennan²

1964

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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Section: Napa State Hospital Imola Californiamentioning

confidence: 99%

Hypnotic susceptibility of schizophrenic patients.

Kramer

Brennan²

1964

The Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology

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“…Nonstandardized procedures. Most studies evaluating suggestibility in hospitalized psychotics used either the Hull (1933) postural sway test or the 1931 Davis-Husband Scale (Bartlett, 1936(Bartlett, , 1944Friedman & Keup, 1963;Gale & Herman, 195 6;Heath, Hoaken, & Sainz, 1960;Polak, Mountain, & Emde, 1964;Webb & Nesmith, 1964;Whitman, 1961;Williams, 1932;Wilson, Gormen, & Cole, 1949). However, the postural sway test is an inadequate measure of overall suggestibility (Webb, 1946), and the Davis-Husband Scale is a crude and arbitrary measure of "hypnotic" suggestibility that fails to specify scoring criteria (Barber, 1969, p. 33).…”

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Suggestibility in hospitalized schizophrenics.

Ham¹,

Spaños²,

Barber³

1976

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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Previous studies pertaining to suggestibility in psychotic patients have yielded inconsistent and contradictory results. To resolve these contradictions, the present study assessed the objective and subjective responses of 77 hospitalized schizophrenics on the Barber Suggestibility Scale. Nineteen additional variables were also recorded, including patients' chronological age, marital status, education, duration of hospitalization, psychopathological behavior, and cooperativeness. Results indicated that these variables together accounted for 44% and 48% of the variance in subjective and objective scores on the Barber scale, respectively. The results also indicated that a relatively small number of these variables accounted for most of the predicted variance in both measures of suggestibility. These findings suggest that inconsistencies in the results of previous studies were due, in part, to the fact that the patient populations in those studies were not comparable.Studies assessing suggestibility 1 in hospitalized psychotics have yielded contradictory results; some investigations found very low levels of suggestibility, whereas others found somewhat high levels. For instance, Copeland and Kitching (1937) reported that "without exception" psychotic patients were not responsive to suggestions, and Gill and Brenman (1959) considered those few schizophrenics who were good subjects to be marked exceptions to the rule. Contradictory findings were reported by at least three sets of investigators: Gordon (1973), Brennan (1964), andWebb andNesmith (1964) found that psychotic patients were at least as suggestible as normals. There appear to be at least five variables, discussed below, related to the contradictory results.

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