Active-Alert Hypnosis: History, Research, and Applications
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis September 4, 2018 DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2018.1496318 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Review Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Healthy volunteers (in the research reviewed); individual cases in the two case studies |
| Citations | 67 |
| Key findings | Argues that active-alert hypnotic induction, which involves eyes-open activity such as pedaling a bicycle ergometer, produces an altered state of consciousness that shares some features with traditional hypnosis but also differs from it in behavioral, experiential, physiological, and interactional respects. |
Abstract
After a brief review of the history of the idea of an activity-increasing hypnotic induction procedure with eyes open and pedaling a bicycle ergometer, the features of active-alert hypnotic induction are summarized. Results of research conducted on healthy volunteers revealed the behavioral, experiential, physiological, and interactional characteristics of the induced altered state of consciousness (ASC), showing both similarities and differences between traditional and active-alert hypnosis. A short description of the application of the method is followed by two brief case studies.
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