"It is a pleasure to come upon a book such as this which frees the topic of self-hypnosis and hypnosis more generally from the mixture of the mystical, spooky, and neurotic quality one finds still in public media or even in some clinical literature. Fromm and Kahn and the Chicago group provide a refreshing, indeed exciting, view of the phenomenon of self-hypnosis that centers it clearly in fundamentally psychological science....This is a remarkable and comprehensive description of a basic human phenomenon. The book combines basic research review and analysis of new studies with carefully developed, sound clinical suggestions for application of self-hypnosis in personal development, health, and psychotherapy. It is the definitive work on the subject and with its lucid, jargon-free writing style, it should interest mental health workers of all disciplines, physicians, dentists, and certainly behavioral scientists and graduate students.'' --Jerome L. Singer, Ph.D.
An invaluable sourcebook for clinicians and researchers alike. It is in the finest tradition of Dr. Fromm's work: gracefully combining scholarly rigor and clinical relevance.'' --Michael Nash, Ph.D.
Erika Fromm is the grand dame of clinical hypnosis research and her impact on the field is great....In SELF-HYPNOSIS: THE CHICAGO PARADIGM, Fromm and Kahn pull strongly from scattered book chapters and journal articles to integrate and extend their self-hypnosis studies and the implications of their studies for clinical hypnosis. In-depth chapters address the use of self-hypnosis for psychotherapy and for the enhancement of the creative process.'' --Helen J. Crawford, Ph.D.
I. INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.
1. Review of the Literature.
2. The University of Chicago Research on Self-Hypnosis.
3. The Pilot Studies on Self-Hypnosis: Results and Speculations.
II. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH.
4. Self-Hypnosis versus Heterohypnosis, and Self-Hypnosis over Time: Comparative and Longitudinal Research.
5. Aspects of Self-Hypnosis Proper.
6. Structural and Content Characteristics of Self-Hypnosis.
7. The Analysis of the Self-Hypnosis Journals: Introduction.
8. Representations of Self-Hypnosis in Personal Narratives.
9. The Modes of the Ego in Self-Hypnosis.
10. The Role of Imagery in Self-Hypnosis: Its Relationship to Personality Characteristics and Gender.
11. The Relation of Self-Reports of Hypnotic Depth in Self-Hypnosis to Hypnotizability and Imagery Production.
12. Self-Hypnotic Absorption and Personality.
13. Overview: The Relationship of Structural, Content, and Personality Variables in Self-Hypnosis.
III. CLINICAL APPLICATION.
14. Self-Hypnosis as a Therapeutic Aid in the Mourning Process.
15. The Clinical Use of Self-Hypnosis in Hypnotherapy: Tapping the Functions of Imagery and Adaptive Regression.
IV. CONCLUSIONS.
16. Implications for Treatment.
17. Summary and Thoughts for Future Research.