ABSTRACT

The issue of who can be hypnotized (and who cannot) is one of the most controversial issues in the entire field of hypnosis. It has been researched and written about in numerous publications, both scientific and otherwise, by some of the most respected people in the field. Such research has typically described personality types and other characteristics (e.g., intelligence) of subjects that predispose them to favorable or unfavorable responses to hypnotic procedures. Many studies have also published statistical breakdowns of the general population into percentages of people who can be hypnotized to various depths of hypnosis as well as those few who apparently cannot be hypnotized at all.