title: Can anecdotes add to an understanding of hypnosis?
abstract: This paper emphasizes the importance of anecdotes, in conjunction with experimental data and careful clinical observation,for an understanding of hypnosis. Anecdotes are presented that bear on (a) individual differences in hypnotizability, (b) the stereotypes of hypnosis, (c) the importance of careful wording in preparing experimental subjects and clinical patients for hypnosis, (d) the notion of hypnosis as involving a partial, but not complete, setting aside of critical judgment, which permits the hypnotized person to engage in fantasy and make-believe, (e) confabulation in hypnotic age regression, (f) the differentiation of hypnotic and therapeutic suggestion, (g)the nature of hypnotic suggestion, and (h) some experiences with the posthypnotic persistence of an uncanceled suggestion.
authors.affiliation: Concordia University, Montreal, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Campbell
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perry
mesh_terms: D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D032882:Comprehension; D005201:Fantasy; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis / Q000379:methods*; D007206:Individuality; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D012043:Regression, Psychology; D013240:Stereotyping; D013404:Suggestion