TY - JOUR
T1 - Hypnosis, human nature, and complexity
T2 - Integrating neuroscience approaches into hypnosis research
AU - Barnier, Amanda J.
AU - McConkey, Kevin M.
PY - 2003/7
Y1 - 2003/7
N2 - Hypnosis research has contributed much to the understanding of human behavior and experience, both normal and abnormal. This paper considers ways in which neuroscience approaches may be integrated into hypnosis research to continue and enhance that contribution, as well as further reveal the nature of hypnosis itself. The authors review the influences on and advances in hypnosis research over the last century; illustrate the investigative value of hypnosis to selected phenomena across the areas of doing, feeling, believing, and remembering; and specify elements for the successful integration of neuroscience approaches into hypnosis research. The authors believe that hypnosis research offers powerful techniques to isolate psychological processes in ways that allow their neural bases to be mapped. Successful integration will be achieved when researchers add levels of explanation, rather than shift the emphasis from one level or feature to another.
AB - Hypnosis research has contributed much to the understanding of human behavior and experience, both normal and abnormal. This paper considers ways in which neuroscience approaches may be integrated into hypnosis research to continue and enhance that contribution, as well as further reveal the nature of hypnosis itself. The authors review the influences on and advances in hypnosis research over the last century; illustrate the investigative value of hypnosis to selected phenomena across the areas of doing, feeling, believing, and remembering; and specify elements for the successful integration of neuroscience approaches into hypnosis research. The authors believe that hypnosis research offers powerful techniques to isolate psychological processes in ways that allow their neural bases to be mapped. Successful integration will be achieved when researchers add levels of explanation, rather than shift the emphasis from one level or feature to another.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0042991388&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1076/iceh.51.3.282.15524
DO - 10.1076/iceh.51.3.282.15524
M3 - Article
C2 - 12934844
AN - SCOPUS:0042991388
VL - 51
SP - 282
EP - 308
JO - International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
JF - International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
SN - 0020-7144
IS - 3
ER -