Theories of Hypnosis

1. Early Theories of Hypnosis: A Clinical Perspective, Melvin A. Gravitz.

2. History and Historigraphy of Hypnosis, Nicholas P. Spanos & John F. Chaves.

II. SINGLE-FACTOR THEMES

The Neodissociation Perspective

3. A Neodissociation Interpretation of Hypnosis, Ernest R. Hilgard.

4. A Neodissociative Critique of Spanos's Social-Psychological

Model of Hypnosis, Kenneth S. Bowers & Thomas M. Davidson.

5. Hypnotizability: Individual Differences in Dissociation and

the Flexible Control of Psychological Processes, Frederick J. Evans.

Hypnosis as Psychological Regression

6. Hypnosis as a Special Case of Psychological Regression, Michael R. Nash.

Hypnosis as Relaxation

7. Anesis, William E. Edmonston, Jr.

III. CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES

8. The Locksmith Model: Accessing Hypnotic Responsiveness, Joseph Barber.

9. Ericksonian Hypnotherapy: A Communications Approach to Hypnosis, Jeffrey K. Zeig & Peter J. Rennick.

IV. THE SOCIAL-COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE

10. Role Theory: Hypnosis from a Dramaturgical and Narrational

Perspective, William C. Coe & Theodore R. Sarbin.

11. A Social-Cognitive Approach to Hypnosis, Nicholas P. Spanos.

12. Compliance, Belief, and Semantics in Hypnosis: A Nonstate,

Social-Cognitive Perspective, Graham F. Wagstaff.

13. An Integrative Model of Hypnosis, Steven Jay Lynn & Judith W. Rhue.

14. The Social Learning Theory of Hypnosis, Irving Kirsch.

15. The Ecosystemic Approach to Hypnosis, David P. Fourie.

V. INTERACTIVE-PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS

16. Two Disciplines of Scientific Hypnosis: A Synergistic Model, Robert Nadon, Jean-Roch Laurence, and Campbell W. Perry.

17. Hypnosis, Context, and Commitment, Peter W. Sheehan.

18. The Construction and Resolution of Experience and Behavior in Hypnosis, Kevin M. McConkey.

19. Toward a Social-Psychobiological Model of Hypnosis, Eva I. Banyai.

VI. CONCLUSIONS

20. Hypnosis Theories: Themes, Variations, and Research Directions, Steven Jay Lynn & Judith W. Rhue.