Imaging of the living human brain elucidates the neural dynamics of hypnosis; however, few
reliable brain patterns emerge across studies. Here, we methodically assess neuroimaging …

Hypnosis is a unique form of top-down regulation in which verbal suggestions are capable
of eliciting pronounced changes in a multitude of psychological phenomena. Hypnotic …

For three decades, Trancework has been the fundamental textbook for guiding professionals
in learning hypnosis. Now in its fourth edition, this classic text continues to be the most …

Hypnosis can profoundly alter sensory awareness and cognitive processing. While the
cognitive and behavioral phenomena associated with hypnosis have long been thought to …

We explore the cognitive effects of three common features of religious interactions:(1)
demand for the expressive suppression of emotion;(2) exposure to goal-demoted and …

Brain mechanisms of hypnosis are poorly known. Cognitive accounts proposed that
executive attentional systems may cause selective inhibition or disconnection of some …

This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how assumptions
about speakers' abilities changed the evoked BOLD response in secular and Christian …

The structure of absorption was examined through factor analysis (N= 352) of a modified
absorption questionnaire MODTAS. A coherent single latent trait was not predicted by …

An update is provided of an earlier review (Gruzelier, 1998) of the range of evidence for
neurophysiological changes in frontal and lateralized functions with hypnosis, changes …

What do we in truth understand by the word dissociation? Is it a psychological event with
underlying physiology, or just a metaphor? Frankel (1994a) Dissociation theories of …