title: Advantages and safeguards in using the ideomotor signaling technique: a commentary of Walsh and clinical practice.
abstract: Research and some of the valuable applications of ideomotor signaling are discussed. Then in a commentary on the uses and misuses of ideomotor signaling, and on Walsh's (1997) variant of this technique, safeguards are discussed, particularly concerning asking questions regarding the exploring of events from the past.
authors.affiliation: University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City 84132, USA.
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Hammond
mesh_terms: D000035:Abreaction; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D005260:Female; D005868:Gestures; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology