Psychometric analysis of the hypnotic induction profile

Spiegel, Holger; Aronson, Marc; Fleiss, Joseph L.; Haber, Jerome

doi:10.1080/00207147608416210

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“…To be nonintact or, in other words, to suffer from some disruption of a dynamic core results in difficulty accepting and internalizing new information-a break in the flow. In a sample of 1339 patients, 25% score low on the HIP (H. Spiegel, 1977;H. Spiegel, Aronson, Fleiss, & Haber, 1976; see Figure 6).…”

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The Neural Trance:A New Look at Hypnosis

Spiegel

2007

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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Hypnosis has had a gradual conceptual emergence from an alleged mystical experience, to sleep, to a psychological shift in concentration that activates a preexisting neuro-physiological circuitry. Data are presented to support the thesis that hypnotizability exists on a spectrum that has biological as well as psychosocial components. When there is synchrony between the bio-psychosocial components of hypnotizability as measured by the Hypnotic Induction Profile (an intact flow), psychotherapy is the primary treatment strategy, with medication secondary or not at all. When measurement reveals a lack of synchrony between biological factors as measured by the Eye-Roll sign and psychosocial responsivity (a nonintact flow), medication will be primary, with different degrees of psychosocial support.

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The Neural Trance:A New Look at Hypnosis

Spiegel

2007

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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“…These various measurements may be reliable, but their significance is questionable. There are many different quantitative methods for measuring individual differences in responsivity to hypnosis, such as the Barber Suggestibility Scale (Barber, 1965), the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scales (Hilgard, 1965;Weitzenhoffer & Hilgard, 1959;Weitzenhoffer & Hilgard, 1962), the Eye Roll Sign and the Induction Score of the Hypnotic Induction Profile (Spiegel & Spiegel, 1978;Spiegel, Aronson, Fleiss & Haber, 1976), and various self-rating procedures (Frischholz, E.J., Tyron, W.W., Fisher, S., Maruffi, B.L., Vellios, A.T. & Spiegel, H., 1980;Tart, 1979). This makes any kind of standardization problematic because scores on different tests, while internally consistent, do not intercorrelate high enough (range of r's = .20 -.…”

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Hypnosis, Hypnotizability and Treatment

Sutcher¹

2008

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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There is broad agreement that a phenomenon we call "hypnosis" exists. However, there is no generally accepted definition of hypnosis. A brief historical overview of the use of hypnosis in healing practices demonstrates how it evolved willy-nilly, and like Topsy, "just growed" into its current status in medicine, psychiatry, psychology and dentistry. The mechanisms underlying hypnosis and how hypnosis differs from other cognitive states are almost totally unknown. With the exceptions of suggestions for pain control, current concepts of high, medium, low or non-hypnotizability do not reliably predict clinical outcomes for most medical, psychiatric or dental disorders. We do know that it is relatively easy to reliably evaluate hypnotizability, but other than choosing volunteers or subjects who will or will not exhibit traditional hypnotic phenomena, we rarely know what to do with that evaluation with actual clinical patients. Four case studies, representative of many others, chosen retrospectively from a practice that spans 45 years, illustrate how traditional or modern hypnotizability assessment is irrelevant in the clinical setting. Although the four patients differed obviously and vastly in hypnotizability, they all benefited from the use of hypnosis.

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“…However, several psychometric papers (DeBetz & Stern, 1980;Spiegel, Aronson, Fleiss & Haber, 1976;Spiegel & Spiegel, 1978;Stern, Spiegel & Nee, 1979) have clearly demonstrated that the distribution of HIP scores is stable within different psychiatric populations. In addition, the scores are internally consistent (standardized item alpha= .81), temporally stable after a three year interval (r=.76), and that the items of the IND score load substantially on a single factor.…”

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“…The first advantage is that clinical norms are available based upon thousands of psychiatric outpatients (DeBetz & Stern, 1980;Spiegel, Aronson, Fleiss & Haber, 1976;Spiegel & Spiegel, 1978;Stern, Speigel & Nee, 1979). A new HIP manual " (Spiegel,Spiegel & Frischholz,Note 2) will present normative data on psychiatric outpatients, psychiatric inpatients, VA in and out-patients, medical outpatients, 102 and college students.…”

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