ABSTRACT
In the spring of 1970 questionnaires were mailed to those members of the Society of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis and of the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis known to have an active involvement in research, and to all members of the recently founded Division on Psychological Hypnosis of the American Psychological Association. The questionnaire responses could be readily subdivided into two major categories. The first is the "growing edges" in the study of hypnosis; the second is the more traditional continuation of existing lines of research. under the first category can be placed nine subcategories: the nature of hypnosis, hypnosis as a subjective experience, preconscious and unconscious processes, self-hypnosis, subject characteristics, the personality of the hypnotist, the social psychology of hypnosis research, new clinical applications of hypnosis, and studies on the correspondences and differences between clinical and experimental hypnosis. Three subcategories have been placed under the second category: experimental hypnosis and clinical research, and (3) the educational applications of hypnosis.
