ABSTRACT
Many workers in the field of hypnosis have held tenaciously to the view that there are personality correlates of hypnosis and that the hypnotizable person manifests aptitudes or abilities for trance that lie waiting to be discovered within the realms of his personality. In view of the wide individual differences present in both imaginal activity and susceptibility to trance as judged by response to standard tests of hypnosis, it is conceivable that the various manifestations of imagination and hypnotizability bear a strong, positive relation to each other. The relevance of imagery and fantasy to hypnosis is seen most readily in the clinical observations hypnotists make on the Ss they test. The occurrence of fantasy in circumstances very different from the traditional hypnotic setting illustrates that the underlying processes of hypnosis bear some clinical similarity to imaginative activities. The role of imaginal activity in hypnosis is stressed by therapists using a variety of hypnotic techniques.
