Psychological treatment of warts.

DuBreuil, Susan C.; Spaños, Nicholas P.

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“…The effect of a hypnotic induction is to increase responsiveness to these suggestions, but only to a surprisingly small degree ("far less than the classical hypnotists would have supposed had the question ever occurred to them," wrote Clark Hull [1933, p. 298]) and only for a minority of subjects (Barber & Glass 1962;Hilgard & Tart 1966;Hull 1933;Stam & Spanos 1980;Weitzenhoffer & Sjoberg 1961). Suggestion without hypnosis has even been found to reduce warts (DuBreuil & Spanos 1993) and control pain during surgery without anesthesia ( Jones 1999).…”

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Précis of The illusion of conscious will

2004

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The experience of conscious will is the feeling that we are doing things. This feeling occurs for many things we do, conveying to us again and again the sense that we consciously cause our actions. But the feeling may not be a true reading of what is happening in our minds, brains, and bodies as our actions are produced. The feeling of conscious will can be fooled. This happens in clinical disorders such as alien hand syndrome, dissociative identity disorder, and schizophrenic auditory hallucinations. And in people without disorders, phenomena such as hypnosis, automatic writing, Ouija board spelling, water dowsing, facilitated communication, speaking in tongues, spirit possession, and trance channeling also illustrate anomalies of will – cases when actions occur without will or will occurs without action. This book brings these cases together with research evidence from laboratories in psychology to explore a theory of apparent mental causation. According to this theory, when a thought appears in consciousness just prior to an action, is consistent with the action, and appears exclusive of salient alternative causes of the action, we experience conscious will and ascribe authorship to ourselves for the action. Experiences of conscious will thus arise from processes whereby the mind interprets itself – not from processes whereby mind creates action. Conscious will, in this view, is an indication that we think we have caused an action, not a revelation of the causal sequence by which the action was produced.

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“…Barber's (1965) literature review revealed that hypnotic suggestion has been associated with reports of changes in such "unchangeable" bodily processes as the nonsurgical removal of warts and rapid recovery from burns, one of them a third-degree burn of a type so severe that skin grafting is typically required (Ewin, 1978). DuBreuil and Spanos (1993) reported data that "hypnotic suggestions produce wart remission that cannot be accounted for in terms of spontaneous remission" (p. 637). DuBreuil and Spanos also used nonhypnotic imagery as a successful treatment for wart remission.…”

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Anomalous healing experiences.

Krippner¹,

Achterberg²

2014

Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examining the Scientific Evidence (2nd Ed.).

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Both authors of this chapter have experienced anomalous healing experiences, which we define as recoveries from serious illnesses that defy explanations through conventional biomedical frameworks. Stanley Krippner was hospitalized for internal bleeding in 1965. On the same day, not knowing of Krippner's hospitalization or condition, Shirley Harrison, a psychic claimant living in Maine, told her daughters that she had to fly to New York City because "Dr. Krippner needs me." According to reports given by her daughters, Harrison added, "He is seriously ill with bleeding ulcers and will be operated on before Monday evening." The operation for duodenal ulcers was Monday morning, but Krippner's troubles were not over. The postoperative wound in his right side, left open to permit the drainage of waste fluids, did not close. Harrison visited Krippner in the hospital, saying that four stitches needed to emerge from the hole before it would heal properly, and estimated

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A comprehensive three-dimensional theory of hypnosis.

Barber¹

1999

Clinical Hypnosis and Self-Regulation: Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives.

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History of Hypnotism is that hypnosis has "ensnared savants of past [and present] generations" and there are "bafflements to come" (pp. 623-624).In evaluating Gauld's History, E. R. Hilgard (1994) agreed that hypnosis is still "a baffling topic." Andre Weitzenhoffer's (1989) intensive 40-year search for the fundamental principles of hypnotism yielded the conclusion that "more than 200 years after its start we are faced with the rather remarkable and depressing fzct that hypnosis, its most central concept, remains much of a mystery" (p. 391). Along similar lines, Steven Jay Lynn and Judith Rhue (1991b, 1991c) emphasized that the authoritative presentday compendium bringing together the mature thinking of two dozen leading hypnosis specialists "does not contain unswers to readers' questions about hypnosis" (p. x) possibly because "a universally accepted definition of what constitutes hypnosis is elusive" (p. 3).I believe hypnosis continues to baffle investigators because it has three separate dimensions. Each investigator sees one or two dimensions and fails to perceive (or dimly perceives) dimensions that are seen by theoretical opponents.

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Psychological treatment of warts.

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

Précis of The illusion of conscious will

Précis of The illusion of conscious will

Anomalous healing experiences.

A comprehensive three-dimensional theory of hypnosis.

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