Hidden Depths: The Story of Hypnosis (63 page)

[75] Jacques Quen, ‘Case Studies in Nineteenth-century Scientific
Rejection: Mesmerism, Perkinism and Acupuncture',
Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences
, 11 (1975), 149–56

[76]——— ‘Mesmerism, Medicine, and Professional Prejudice',
New York State Journal of Medicine
, 76 (1976), 2218–22

[77] Elizabeth Ridgway, ‘John Elliotson (1791–1868): A Bitter Enemy of Legitimate Medicine?',
Journal of Medical Biology
, 1 (1993), 191–8; 2 (1994), 1–7

[78] Robert Weyant, ‘Protoscience, Pseudoscience, Metaphors and Animal Magnetism' in Marsha Hanen
et al
. (eds.),
Science, Pseudoscience and Society
(Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1980), 77–114

By the end of the nineteenth century, the most important research was being done on the Continent, especially in France:

[79] Hippolyte Bernheim,
Suggestive Therapies: A Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism
, tr. C.A. Herter (New York: Putnam, 1900); repr. as
Hypnotism and Suggestion in Psychotherapy: A Treatise on the Nature and Uses of Hypnotism
(New York: University Books, 1964)

[80] Anne Harrington, ‘Metals and Magnets in Medicine: Hysteria, Hypnosis and Medical Culture in Fin-de-siècle Paris',
Psychological Medicine
, 18 (1988), 21–38

[81] Robert Hillman, ‘A Scientific Study of Mystery: The Role of the Medical and Popular Press in the Nancy-Salpêtrière Controversy on Hypnotism',
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
, 9 (1965), 163 –82

[82] A.R.G. Owen,
Hysteria, Hypnosis and Healing: The Work of J.M. Charcot
(New York: Garrett, 1971)

[83] C.E. Schorer, ‘The Later Bernheim: A Translation',
Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences
, 4 (1968), 28–39

In this chapter I digress on to the topic of hypnotism and crime:

[84] Heinz Hammerschlag,
Crime and Hypnotism
(North Hollywood, CA: Powers Publishing, 1957)

[85] Ruth Harris, ‘Murder Under Hypnosis',
Psychological Medicine
, 15 (1985), 477–505 See also [19]

On forensic hypnosis, a number of cases are retailed with uncritical gusto in:

[86] Eugene Block,
Hypnosis: A New Tool in Crime Detection
(New York: McKay, 1976)

And of the many specialist works on the subject, I would recommend:

[87] Jean-Roch Laurence and Campbell Perry,
Hypnosis, Will, and Memory: A Psycho-Legal History
(New York: Guilford Press, 1988)

[88] Kevin McConkey and Peter Sheehan,
Hypnosis, Memory, and Behavior in Criminal Investigation
(New York: Guilford Press, 1995)

[89] Martin Orne, ‘The Use and Misuse of Hypnosis in Court',
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
, 27 (1979), 311–41

[90] Campbell Perry, ‘Hypnotic Coercion and Compliance to It: A Review of Evidence Presented in a Legal Case',
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
, 27 (1979), 187–218

[91]——— ‘Admissibility and Per Se Exclusion of Hypnotically Elicited Recall in American Courts of Law',
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
, 45 (1997), 266–79

[92] Helen Pettinati (ed.),
Hypnosis and Memory
(New York: Guilford Press, 1988)

[93] Alan Scheflin
et al
.,
Repressed Memory, Hypnotherapy and the Law
(Des Plaines, IL: American Society of Clinical Hypnosis Press, 1994)

[94] David Spiegel and Alan Scheflin, ‘Dissociated or Fabricated? Psychiatric Aspects of Repressed Memories in Criminal and Civil Cases',
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
, 42 (1994), 411–32

[95] Roy Udolf,
Forensic Hypnosis: Psychological and Legal Aspects
(Boston: D.C. Heath, 1983)

These works necessarily deal with the topics of hypnotic coercion, confabulation and the reliability of memory. See also:

[96] Richard Ofshe and Ethan Watters,
Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria
(New York: Scribner's, 1994)

[97] Kathy Pezdek and William Banks (eds.),
The Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate
(San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1996)

Milgram's crucial experiments are recounted in:

[98] Stanley Milgram,
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View
(New York: Harper & Row, 1974)

A lot of sober and well-researched studies on paranormal phenomena appear in the pages of two long-established journals:
Journal for the American Society for Psychical Research
;
Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research

The history of hypnotically induced paranormal phenomena is treated country by country, exhaustively and critically, by various authors, in:

[99] Eric Dingwall (ed.),
Abnormal Hypnotic Phenomena: A Survey of Nineteenth–century Cases
(4 vols., London: Churchill, 1967).

General books which cover the phenomena in the context of hypnotism include:

[100] Simeon Edmunds,
Hypnotism and Psychic Phenomena
(North Hollywood, CA: Wilshire, 1961)

[101] Michael Murphy,
The Future of the Body
(Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1992)

[102] Sheila Ostrander and Lynn Schroeder,
Psi: Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain
(London: Abacus, 1973)

[103]———
The ESP Papers: Scientists Speak Out from behind the Iron Curtain
(New York: Bantam Books, 1976)

Reincarnation, of course, has its own extensive bibliography. A fairly sober general study is:

[104] Hans TenDam,
Exploring Reincarnation
(London: Penguin Arkana, 1990)

And then books concerned with hypnotic past-life regression include:

[105] Morey Bernstein,
The Search for Bridey Murphy
(New York: Doubleday, 1956)

[106] Jeffrey Iverson,
More Lives Than One?
(London: Souvenir Press, 1976)

[107] Joe Keeton (with Simon Petherick),
The Power of the Mind: Healing through Hypnosis and Suggestion
(London: Robert Hale, 1988)

[108] Milton Kline (ed.),
A Scientific Report on ‘The Search for Bridey Murphy'
(New York: Julian Press, 1956)

[109] Helen Wambach,
Reliving Past Lives: The Evidence Under Hypnosis
(New York: Harper & Row, 1978)

[110]———
Life Before Life
(New York: Bantam, 1979)

[111] Ian Wilson,
Reincarnation?
(London: Penguin, 1982; first pub. as
Mind Out of Time
(London: Gollancz, 1981) and in America as
All in the Mind
(New York: Doubleday, 1982))

On alien abduction, you could try these:

[112] Courtlandt Bryan,
Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind
(New York: Knopf, 1995)

[113] Patrick Harpur,
Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld
(London: Viking, 1994)

[114] Whitley Strieber,
Communion
(London: Century, 1987)

On Freud's involvement with hypnotism, see:

[115] Melvin Gravitz and Manuel Gerton, ‘Freud and Hypnosis: Report of Post-rejection Use',
Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences
, 17 (1981), 68–74

[116]——— ‘Polgar as Freud's Hypnotist? Contrary Evidence',
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
, 24 (1982), 272– 6

[117] Milton Kline,
Freud and Hypnosis: The Interaction of Psychodynamics and Hypnosis
(New York: Julian Press, 1958)

[118]——— ‘Freud and Hypnosis: A Reevaluation',
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
, 20 (1972), 252–63

[119] Jerome Schneck, ‘Countertransference in Freud's Rejection of Hypnosis',
American Journal of Psychiatry
, 110 (1954), 928–31

[120]——— ‘A Reevaluation of Freud's Abandonment of Hypnosis',
Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences
, 1 (1965), 191–5

On the history of the unconscious before Freud, see:

[121] Lancelot Whyte,
The Unconscious Before Freud
(New York: Basic Books, 1960)

On multiple personality disorder (MPD):

[122] Eugene Bliss,
Multiple Personalities, Allied Disorders and Hypnosis
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)

[123] Eric Carlson, ‘Multiple Personality and Hypnosis: The First 100 Years',
Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences
, 25 (1989), 315–22

[124] Adam Crabtree,
Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality
(New York: Praeger, 1985)

[125]——— ‘Mesmerism, Divided Consciousness, and Multiple Personality' in Heinz Schott (ed.),
Franz Anton Mesmer und die Geschichte des Mesmerismus
(Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1985), 133–43

[126] Ian Hacking,
Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
(Princeton University Press, 1995)

[127] Daniel Keyes,
The Minds of Billy Milligan
(New York: Random House, 1981)

[128] Morton Prince,
The Dissociation of a Personality
, 2nd edn (New York: Longmans, Green, 1908)

[129] Flora Rheta Schreiber,
Sybil
(Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1973)

[130] Christine Sizemore and Elen Pittilo,
I'm Eve
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977)

[131] Corbett Thigpen and Hervey Cleckley,
The Three Faces of Eve
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957)

There is an amazing quantity of modern research on hypnosis, much of it far too technical for inclusion in this bibliography, and much of it located within the covers of specialist academic periodicals, especially:
American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis
;
British Journal of Medical Hypnotism
;
Contemporary Hypnosis
;
International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis
;
Journal of Abnormal Psychology
;
Journal of the International Society for Professional Hypnosis

As an introduction to Milton Erickson's work, this one could hardly be bettered:

[132] William O'Hanlon,
Taproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson's Therapy and Hypnosis
(New York: Norton, 1987)

Then see Erickson's own writings, especially:

[133] Milton Erickson and Ernest Rossi,
Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook
(New York: Irvington, 1979)

[134] Milton Erickson, Ernest Rossi and Shiela Rossi,
Hypnotic Realities: The Induction of Clinical Hypnosis and Forms of Indirect Suggestion
(New York: Irvington, 1976)

The most popular treatment of those psychologists who deny the existence of hypnosis is:

[135] Robert Baker,
They Call It Hypnosis
(Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1990)

Rather less strident than Baker's book is:

[136] Peter Naish (ed.),
What is Hypnosis? Current Theories and Research
(Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986)

A good but technical debate on neodissociationism (here in chronological order) is:

[137] Irving Kirsch and Steven Jay Lynn, ‘Dissociation Theories of Hynposis',
Psychological Bulletin
, 123 (1998), 100–15

[138] John Kihlstrom, ‘Dissociations and Dissociation Theory in Hypnosis: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn',
Psychological Bulletin
, 123 (1998), 186–91

[139] Erik Woody and Pamela Sadler, ‘On Reintegrating Dissociated Theories: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn',
Psychological Bulletin
, 123 (1998), 192–7

[140] Irving Kirsch and Steven Jay Lynn, ‘Dissociating the Wheat from the Chaff in Theories of Hypnosis: Reply to Kihlstrom (1998) and Woody and Sadler (1998)',
Psychological Bulletin
, 123 (1998), 198–202

The following works, mostly summaries rather than original research articles, are all worth consulting and will introduce the reader to a spread of views:

[141] Theodore Barber,
Hypnosis: A Scientific Approach
(New York: Van Nostrand, 1969)

[142] Theodore Barber, Nicholas Spanos and John Chaves,
Hypnotism, Imagination, and Human Potentialities
(New York: Pergamon, 1974)

[143]
William Edmonston,
Hypnosis and Relaxation: Modern Verification of an Old Equation
(New York: Wiley, 1980)

[144] Erika Fromm and Michael Nash (eds.),
Contemporary Hypnosis Research
(New York: Guilford, 1992)

[145] Erika Fromm and Ronald Shor (eds.),
Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives
, 2nd edn (New York: Aldine, 1979)

[146] Ernest Hilgard, ‘Hypnosis',
Annual Review of Psychology
, 16 (1965), 157–80

[147]———
The Experience of Hypnosis
(New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968)

[148]——— ‘Hypnotic Phenomena: The Struggle for Scientific Respectability',
American Scientist
, 59 (1971), 567–77

[149]——— ‘Hypnosis',
Annual Review of Psychology
, 26 (1975), 19–44

[150]———
Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human Thought and Action
(New York: Wiley, 1977)

[151] Ernest and Josephine Hilgard,
Hypnosis in the Relief of Pain
, 3rd edn (New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1994)

[152] Clark Hull,
Hypnosis and Suggestibility: An Experimental Approach
(New York: Appleton-Century, 1933)

[153] John Kihlstrom, ‘Hypnosis',
Annual Review of Psychology
, 36 (1985), 385–418