Hypnosis for the Seriously Curious

By Kenneth S. Bowers

Book Overview

With this innovative book Kenneth Bowers provides an unusually clear and coherent introduction to a puzzling and elusive subject. Organizing his presentation around the major questions surrounding this often paradoxical phenomenon--Are hypnotic effects genuine? What is hypnotic suggestibility and the hypnotic state? Can anyone be hypnotized?--the author takes the reader systematically through the pivotal experiments in the field. And more, his evenhanded approach brings to light those critical studies that do and do not support theories of hypnosis. The author concludes his account with a look at the clinical applications of hypnosis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393953394
• ISBN13: 9780393953398
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Just what the title says it is

Originally published in 1976, and in need of some revision, this remains the single best introduction to hypnosis -- what it is and what it isn't, what it can do and what it can't. Highly accessible.