Judith W. Rhue

The fantasy-prone person: Hypnosis, imagination, and creativity.

The present study evaluated the so-called fantasy prone personality by selecting subjects who ranged along the continuum of fantasy proneness and then administering measures designed to assess hypnotic susceptibility (Harvard Group Scale, HGSHS:A; Shor & Orne, 1962), absorption (Tellegen Absorption Scale; Tellegen, 1976), vividness of mental imagery (QMI; Sheehan, 1967), response to waking suggestion (Creative Imagination Scale; Wilson & Barber, 1978), creativity (Barron Welsh Art Scale; Barron & Welsh, 1952), and social desirability (Crowne & Marlowe, 1960). Fantasy-prone (N = 23; upper 4% of college population), medium range (N = 22), and nonfantasy-prone persons (N = 17; lower 4% of population), were selected using the Inventory of Childhood Memories and Imaginings (Wilson & Barber, 1981). Strong support was secured for J. R. Hilgards construct of imaginative involvement and Wilson and Barbers contention that fantasy prone persons can be distinguished from others in terms of fantasy and related cognitive processes. Fantasizers were found to outscore subjects in both comparison groups on all of the measures of fantasy, imagination, and creativity, with social desirability used as a covariate. Low fantasy-prone subjects were no less creative or less responsive to hypnosis than their medium fantasy-prone counterparts.

Casebook of clinical hypnosis.

Clinical Hypnosis - Assessment, Applications and Treatment Considerations Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy for Phobic Anxiety Hypnosis in the Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa A Brief Therapy Approach to the Use of Hypnosis in Treating Depression Hypnosis in the Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder When All Else Fails Hypnotic Exploration of Childhood Trauma Hypnotic Strategies for Somatoform Disorders Emotional Self-Regulation Therapy for Treating Primary Dysmenorrhea and Premenstrual Distress Hypnosis with a Borderline Patient Treatment of a Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy for Smoking Cessation - a Case Study in a Group Setting Narrative and Imaginative Storytelling - Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of a Sexually Abused Child Neurotherapy and Alert Hypnosis in the Treatment of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Hypnotherapy in the Treatment of Adolescent Enuresis A Psychoanalytically Informed Approach in the Case of Ellen Using Hypnosis in Rational-Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) in the Case of Ellen Multimodal Treatment in the Case of Ellen The Use of Ericksonian Hypnotherapy in the Case of Ellen Maximising Treatment Gains - Recommendations for the Practice of Clinical Hypnosis.

Hypnotic age regression and the importance of assessing interpersonally relevant affect.

Abstract The present study was undertaken to replicate an earlier experiment and to clarify which factors in this previous experiment (Nash, Johnson, & Tipton, 1979) were responsible for the obtained child-like behaviors of hypnotically regressed Ss. As in the previous study, 3 characteristics of the transitional object relationship (spontaneity, specificity, and intensity) were used as the primary criteria to investigate the effects of hypnotic age regression when Ss were regressed to age 3 and placed in 3 home situations. While in the previous study E suggested separation anxiety and isolation during the 3 home situations (mother-absent condition), the present study deleted all references to anxiety and isolation, and replaced them with suggestions of security and maternal proximity (mother-present condition). As expected, the mother-present versus mother-absent conditions led to similar hypnotized-simulating differences. In further accord with predictions, hypnotized Ss and simulating Ss requested a tr...

Non-Volition and Hypnosis. Reals vs. Simulators: Experiential and Behavioral Differences in Response to Conflicting Suggestions during Hypnosis

Susceptible real and low susceptible simulating subjects were instructed to attend to, imagine, and think about described actions, but not to engage in movements while hypnotized. Susceptible imagination subjects received identical instructions but no prior induction. Testing occurred in small groups where observers rated movement responses to five motoric suggestions. As predicted, reals responded behaviorally following their experiential involvement in suggestions more than did simulators. Simulators moved more at one extreme or the other (movement or no movement) than reals, as predicted. Reals coded testimony reflected more conflict, sensations, imaginative involvement, and lack of volition than simulators. Although the imagination group behaved like simulators, their testimony paralleled the reals, with the exception that more volitional control was reported. In a second replication of real-simulator movement differences with a separate group of subjects, even when simulators were not released from their role plays when subjective reports were collected, they continued to differ on all subjective scales with the exception that they appreciated the conflict inherent in the situation, as did the reals. This second study demonstrated that real-simulator differences are still evident when simulators role play.

The effects of competent behavior on interpersonal attraction and task leadership

Past research relating to competence and the status of sex-role stereotypes has produced highly divergent and confusing results, while research into their effects on leadership choices has been scarce. With these issues in mind, the current study varied subject sex, competence, and confederate sex to evaluate their influence on attraction, leadership choice, and sex-role stereotyping on a number of bipolar items. Results revealed that competent womenw ere found to be as attractive as competent men, while incompetent women were found to be more attractive than incompetent men. Leadership remained a masculine trait; women assumed much less responsibility for leadership than did men. Thus, while women may be viewed as being as attractive as men when both are competent, they are not given, nor do they assume equivalent amounts of responsibility for leadership. There was generally a lack of sex-role stereotyping on bipolar items.

Biofeedback and Stress-Related Disorders: Enhancing Transfer and Gain Maintenance

In 1973, it was proposed that… “a new behavioral medicine, biofeedback, may in fact respresent a major new developing frontier of medicine and psychiatry” (Birk, 1973). It is clear that if the promise of a behavioral medicine based upon biofeedback techniques is to be realized, effects generated in the laboratory or clinical setting must be shown to result in sustained modification or amelioration of various disorders. Thus, if a hypertensive individual has effectively learned blood pressure regulation in the laboratory or clinic, he should be able to maintain acceptably low levels at home, at work, in stressful situations, and in the presence of different individuals.