Textbook of abnormal psychology (2nd ed.).

Dorcus, Roy M.; Shaffer, G. Wilson

doi:10.1037/13497-000

1939

DOI: 10.1037/13497-000

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Textbook of abnormal psychology (2nd ed.).

Roy M. Dorcus¹,

G. Wilson Shaffer²

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“…XXV, NO. Myers, 112 Perchard, 121 and Dorcus and Shaffer 53 have also presented data indicating that "posthypnotic amnesia" for pain experienced during surgery or during parturition is temporary and easily reversible. In a number of investigations 37 -63 ' 80 -93 -114> 128 the hypnotized patients cried, moaned, or showed signs of shock during surgery or parturition but maintained afterwards that they had forgotten the experience.…”

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The Effects of “Hypnosis” on Pain

Barber

1963

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Experimental and clinical studies concerned with the effects of "hypnotically-suggested analgesia" in surgery, in labor, and in chronic pain are critically evaluated. The review suggests that "hypnotic analgesia" at times produces not a reduction in pain but an unwillingness to state directly to the hypnotist that pain was experienced or a temporary "amnesia" for the pain experienced. In other instances, suggestions of pain relief given under "hypnosis" produce some degree of diminution in anxiety and pain as indicated by reduction in physiological responses to noxious stimuli and by reduction in requests for pain-relieving drugs. The data suggest that "the hypnotic trance state" may be an extraneous variable in ameliorating pain experience in situations described as "hypnosis;" the critical variables appear to include: (a) suggestions of pain relief, which are (b) given in a close interpersonal setting. A NUMBER OF INVESTIGATOHS 34 contendthat "hypnotically-suggested analgesia" lessens or entirely prevents pain, while others 82 are of the opinion that hypnotic suggestions produce verbal denial of pain experience without affecting pain and suffering. This paper critically evaluates the effects of "hypnosis" on pain. Relevant clinical and experimental studies are reviewed to answer two questions: (1) Does "hypnotically-suggested analgesia" refer to reduction of pain, to verbal denial of the pain experienced, or to a combination of both of these effects? (2) Of the many independent and intervening variables subsumed under the term "hyp-From the Medfleld Foundation, Medfleld, Mass.

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The Effects of “Hypnosis” on Pain

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1963

Psychosomatic Medicine

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A Concrete Case for Woodworth's Hypothesis on the Cause of Dreams

Bolton

1943

The Journal of Psychology

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Textbook of abnormal psychology (2nd ed.).

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