Reflections on some unresolved issues in hypnosis.
Reflections guided the author in the preparation of this paper. Having worked in and around the construction "hypnosis" for two thirds of a century, he can claim the privilege of offering reflections rather than presenting new data or revised theories. His reflections include some autobiographical accounts that help illuminate how he came to construe the conduct traditionally subsumed under the hypnosis label as the enactment of a social role mediated by skill in imagining.
Sarbin
Theodore R
TR
University of California, Santa Cruz, USA. trs85@aol.com
D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D007092:Imagination