The "Mysteries of Hypnosis:" Helping Us Better Understand Hypnosis and Empathic Involvement Theory (EIT).
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 2016 DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2015.1101679 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Topics | Meditation Philosophy of mind |
| Keywords | Brain Hypnosis Mind-body Noetics Self |
| Citations | 7 |
| Key findings | Empathy is intimately involved in the psychology and neurophysiology of hypnosis and the self. |
Abstract
Wickramasekera II (2015) has penned a comprehensive and thoughtful review article demonstrating how empathy is intimately involved in the psychology and neurophysiology of hypnosis and the self. Hypnosis is a very "mental" or subjective phenomenon for both the client and the research participant. To better assess the mind of the client/participant during hypnosis, it is my belief that we need to generate more "precise" phenomenological descriptors of the mind during hypnosis and related empathic conditions, as Wickramasekera II (2015) has suggested in his article. Although any phenomenological methodology will have its limits and disadvantages, noetics (as defined in the article below) can help us better understand hypnosis, empathic involvement theory, and the brain/mind/behavior interface. By quantifying the mind in a comprehensive manner, just as the brain is comprehensively quantified via fMRI and qEEG technologies, noetic analysis can help us more precisely assess the mind and relate it to the brain and human behavior and experience.
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| The lived experience of psychosis: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics. Individuals with lived experience of psychosis, family members, and carers | 2022 | Co-written bottom-up review | |
| From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology: Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being. | 2003 | Review |
Citations in the library
Cited by 3
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- The “Hidden Observer” as the Cognitive Unconscious During Hypnosis Activitas Nervosa Superior September 1, 2016
- Therapeutic dissociation: From non-ordinary states to psychological transformation January 12, 2024
Cites 7
- Varieties of anomalous experience: Examining the scientific evidence. American Psychological Association eBooks 2000
- Reply to Wagstaff: “Hypnosis and the Relationship between Trance, Suggestion, Expectancy, and Depth: Some Semantic and Conceptual Issues” American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis 2011
- Suggestibility, expectancy, trance state effects, and hypnotic depth: II. Assessment via the PCI-HAP. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis April 2010
- An Empirical–Phenomenological Approach To Quantifying Consciousness And States Of Consciousness: With Particular Reference To Understanding The Nature Of Hypnosis Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective January 18, 2007
- A short, unobtrusive hypnotic-assessment procedure for assessing hypnotizability level: I. Development and research. American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis April 1995
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