ABSTRACT

There seems to be a natural, human ability to alter one’s experience that already exists – prior to and apart from any hypnotic induction. Individual differences in this ability range from low to high and are largely commensurate with the person’s assessed hypnotizability. More importantly, these preexisting, individual differences in the ability to alter experience seem to be the “substrate” that enables each individual’s response to hypnotic suggestions. It is proposed that, with some notable exceptions, the hypnosis field’s understanding of hypnotizability has been hindered by theorists’ (and clinicians’) tendency to consider the instruments that reveal hypnotic phenomena (i.e., hypnosis and suggestions) to be explanatory concepts.

摘要

在任何催眠诱导之前和之外，似乎有一种自然的、人类的能力来改变一个人已经存在的经验。这种能力的个体差异范围从低到高，并且在很大程度上与评估的人的催眠能力相称。更重要的是，这些改变经验能力的预先存在的个体差异似乎是使每个人对催眠建议做出反应的“基础”。有人提出，除了一些显着的例外，催眠领域对催眠性的理解受到理论家（和临床医生）倾向于将揭示催眠现象（即催眠和建议）的工具视为解释性概念的倾向。