Publisher's Synopsis
Although hypnosis has been a subject of study for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and psychophysiologists for well over a century, a wealth of new data has emerged on the topic over the last three decades. Hypnosis and hypnotherapy have taken their place among the accepted areas of research and psychotherapy.;"Hypnosis: Current Theory, Research and Practice" contains a selection of papers based on the contributions to the 11th International congress on Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine, which was sponsored by the International Society of Hypnosis and by the Netherlands Society for Hypnotherapy.;The papers represent the state of the art of current theory, experimental research and clinical practice and they are written by leading scholars in the field.