Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to introduce to sociologists the concept of dissociative hypnosis and to demonstrate the potential that this discipline has for obtaining or deriving biographical narratives in ethnographic and autoethnographic studies.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper presents brief comparative histories of the development of hypnosis and of performance autoethnography to highlight the degree of consonance between these apparently, disparate modalities, in their struggle for acceptance and respectability. The intensely introspective, emotional and experiential nature of hypnosis and self-hypnosis narratives is then compared with the personal descriptions and applications of the autoethnographic process as depicted in the sociological literature, to illustrate the parallels between the two modalities. The paper concludes with a review of the potential problems and limitations inherent in using hypnosis as a memory recall modality in sociological research studies.

Findings

This paper argues that the exploratory and revelatory nature of information accrual during dissociative altered-state hypnosis closely resembles that during performance autoethnography, and that hypnosis could therefore be usefully employed as an additional and novel (ethno-) autobiographical tool in sociological and ethnographic research.

Originality/value

Performative autoethnography has now become a firmly established route to obtaining a valid and intensely personal autobiographical history of individuals or groups of individuals. However this is the first publication to propose hypnosis as an alternative approach to deriving ethnographic and autoethnographic biographical narratives.

中文翻译：

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催眠作为定性社会学研究中的表现人种志

目的

本文的目的是向社会学家介绍解离性催眠的概念，并证明该学科在民族志和人类志学研究中获得或得出传记叙事的潜力。

设计/方法/方法

本文简要介绍了催眠术和表演自觉民族志发展的比较历史，以突显这些明显不同的形式之间在寻求接受和尊重方面的和谐程度。然后，将催眠和自我催眠叙事的强烈内省，情感和体验性质与社会学文献中所描述的人类志学过程的个人描述和应用进行比较，以说明这两种方式之间的相似之处。本文最后总结了在社会学研究中使用催眠作为记忆记忆方式所固有的潜在问题和局限性。

发现

本文认为，解离性变态催眠过程中信息积累的探索性和启示性性质与表演民族志中的相似，因此催眠可以有效地用作社会学和民族志研究中的另一种新颖的（民族）自传工具。

创意/价值

表演性民族志学现已成为获取个人或个人团体有效且强烈的个人自传历史的牢固途径。但是，这是第一个提出催眠作为推导人种志和自传人志传记叙事的替代方法的出版物。