title: What is a suggestion? The neuroscience of implicit processing heuristics in therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy.
abstract: Neuroscience and bioinformatics research on activity-dependent gene expression and brain plasticity in memory and learning are used to reconceptualize a fundamental question of therapeutic hypnosis, "What is a suggestion?" John Kihlstrom's cognitive-behavioral perspective of implicit (unconscious) and explicit (conscious) memory and Eric Kandel's Nobel Prize winning neurobiological research are integrated for a 30-year update of Milton H. Erickson's "neuro-psycho-physiology" of therapeutic hypnosis. Implicit processing heuristics are proposed as a more general framework for Erickson's concept of permissive indirect suggestions in therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy. These perspectives are illustrated by utilizing implicit processing heuristics to facilitate the four-stage creative process in converting implicit to explicit memory in a brain-damaged patient.
authors: Ernest@ErnestRossi.com
authors: Ernest L
authors: EL
authors: Rossi
authors: Kathryn L
authors: KL
authors: Rossi
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D015928:Cognitive Behavioral Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D006990:Hypnosis; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000379:methods*; D013404:Suggestion