Self-Programmed Control: A New Approach to Learning

Barrios, Alfred A.

doi:10.1080/24699365.1973.11669471

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“…Some of them have even managed to get rid of colds and influenza by using special suggestions. Some similar results were obtained in the experiments of autohypnosis (Barrios, 1973).…”

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Theoretical Analysis of Deep Hypnosis: Creative Activity of Hypnotized Subjects into Transformed Self-Consciousness

Raikov¹

1977

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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“…Some of them have even managed to get rid of colds and influenza by using special suggestions. Some similar results were obtained in the experiments of autohypnosis (Barrios, 1973).…”

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Theoretical Analysis of Deep Hypnosis: Creative Activity of Hypnotized Subjects into Transformed Self-Consciousness

Raikov¹

1977

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

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“…For example, imagining negative outcomes of smoking and overeating and positive outcomes of not doing so can make it easier to resist these urges.' This very same procedure is referred to as the 'Punishment-Reward' technique, one of several visualization techniques for facilitating reprogramming, in the self-programmed control (SPC) programme for improving behaviour (see Barrios, 1973b andBarrios, 1985: 49 and50). These techniques and others for facilitating suggestion and post-hypnotic suggestion are derived from Corollary 8 of the theory (see above) and will be discussed further in Part II of the Commentary.…”

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Commentary on a theory of hypnosis based on principles of conditioning and inhibition Part I: contrasts with other perspectives and supporting evidence

Barrios¹

2007

Contemporary Hypnosis

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This article places in the contemporary context 'A theory of hypnosis based on principles of conditioning and inhibition', published earlier in Contemporary Hypnosis (Barrios, 2001). The commentary is in two parts. Here in Part I, following a succinct summary of the theory, there are two sections: (1) contrasting the theory with three other major perspectives in the fi eld, the Sociocognitive, the Dissociation/Neo-Dissociation, and the Response-Expectancy perspectives as well as with Erickson's strategic approach to therapy; and (2) some of the supporting research subsequent to the theory's fi rst evolution (1969) Key words: conditioning, hypnosis, hypnotic phenomena, inhibition, belief Summary of the theoryIn the theory (Barrios, 2001) a hypnotic induction is defi ned as the giving of a series of suggestions so that a positive response to a previous suggestion predisposes the subject to respond more strongly to the next suggestion. Hypnosis is defi ned then as the state of heightened suggestibility, also referred to as a state of heightened belief, produced by a hypnotic induction. What occurs during a hypnotic induction to increase suggestibility is a process of conditioning of an inhibitory set. The latter increases responsiveness to suggestion by inhibiting thoughts and stimuli which would contradict the suggested response. The more effective the hypnotic induction, the greater this inhibitory set.It is postulated that at any point in time there are any number of stimuli (both cognitive and sensory) that one can be responsive to, some more strongly than others. This is referred to as the stimulus dominance hierarchy. The various hypnotic and post-hypnotic phenomena can be explained in terms of how the inhibitory set can rearrange the dominant position of a particular stimulus (cognitive or sensory) focused on by the suggestion. Post-hypnotic behaviour changes are explained as produced through a process of higherorder conditioning where the inhibitory set facilitates such conditioning by suppressing any dominant stimuli present (cognitive or sensory) that would interfere with the intended conditioning.From the theory, a number of ways can be deduced for increasing responsiveness to suggestion and thereby increasing the effectiveness of hypnotic induction. These include: the amplifi cation of minute responses to suggestion such as with the use of biofeedback

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