International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
June 1, 2026
Tiago Garcia, Valdenilson Ribas
Hypnosis has been described as a tool that facilitates immersion into roles by modulating cognitive and attentional processes. This study aimed to evaluate how hypnosis can help actors create and interpret characters. Previous research has occasionally reported gender differences in hypnotic susceptibility and responses to hypnotic interventions. Although not a primary aim of this study,...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
2025
Alterations in consciousness have long been used to enhance creativity. Here, we focus on the ways in which hypnosis and psychedelics alter consciousness to enhance creativity, drawing on both research and first-hand accounts. The research utilizes standard measures of creativity as well as assessments of artistic, musical, and work-related problem-solving ability. First-hand accounts of...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
April 2, 2020
A distinctive feature common to many contemplative practices is a focus of attention and procedure of induction toward achieving an altered state of consciousness. In recent years, practices like mindfulness have become increasingly popular, and there has been increased interest in the relationship between hypnosis and mindfulness-based practices as well as other contemplative practices...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
January 2, 2019
Enrico Facco, Edoardo Casiglia, Benedikt Emanuel Al Khafaji et al.
38 citations
Inducing out-of-body experiences in hypnosis (H-OBEs) offers an almost unique opportunity to investigate them under controlled conditions. OBEs were induced as an imaginative task in a resting condition (I-OBE) or in hypnosis (H-OBE) in a group of 15 high hypnotizable subjects. A 32-channel EEG was recorded, and the spectral power and imaginary coherence of each frequency band and each couple...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
June 1, 2018
D. Patterson, C. Hoffer, M. Jensen et al.
8 citations
Abstract This pilot study explored the feasibility of using ketamine to increase hypnotizability scores. Ketamine, classified as a dissociative hallucinogen, is used clinically as an anesthetic in high doses and as a treatment for chronic pain and depression in lower doses. Low-dose ketamine can contribute to dissociation and heightened perceptions and feelings of detachment, arguably...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
March 24, 2012
Quinton Deeley, David A Oakley, Brian Toone et al.
149 citations
Debate regarding the neural basis of the hypnotic state continues, but a recent hypothesis suggests that it may produce alterations in the default mode network (DMN). DMN describes a network of brain regions more active during low-demand compared to high-demand task conditions and has been linked to processes such as task-independent thinking, episodic memory, semantic processing, and...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
February 28, 2011
Thilo Hinterberger, Julian Schöner, Ulrike Halsband
34 citations
Hypnosis can be seen as a guided induction of various states of consciousness. This article details a time-series analysis that visualized the electrophysiological state changes during a session as a correlate to the instructions. Sixty-four channels of EEG and peripheral physiological measures were recorded in 1 highly susceptible subject. Significant state changes occurred synchronously with...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
October 1, 1977
Erika Fromm
39 citations
Abstract In this paper a new ego-psychological thmry is proposed for the understanding of altered stah of consciousness. The diehob mies of primary and secondary process, ego activity and ego receptivity, and automatization and de-automatization of ego functions in daydreaming, in the inspirational phase of creativity, in hypnosis, in psychedelic stabs, and in meditation are discussed; so are...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
October 1, 1977
Abstract The author explains why it is important at this juncture in time to acquaint researchers and clinicians in the field of hypnosis with the current serious research in altered states of consciousness, and vice versa. In a 1975 SCEH symposium, the author brought together both well-established and young researchers coming from orientations as widely differing as neurophysiology, cognitive...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
1972
David Whitman van Nuys
4 citations
Abstract 47 undergraduate male volunteers were asked 2 questions relating to their use of marijuana and/or psychedelic drugs (e.g., LSD, mescaline, psilocybin) and were administered the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A). The HGSHS:A scores of Ss who had, at some time, taken any of these drugs averaged 2 points higher than scores of Ss who had not. Further research...
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
July 1, 1961
Seymour Lionel Halpern
15 citations
(1961). On the similarity between hypnotic and mescaline hallucinations. International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis: Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 139-149.