ABSTRACT

Researchers and clinicians have wrestled with the problem of determining why children, as a group, are more responsive to hypnosis than adults. Some suggested answers are based on research, others are derived from theories of child development, and still others are derived from informal observations of children. In this chapter, we discuss a wide variety of possible correlates and evaluate the available data. A few correlates have already been discussed, and we mention them briefly for the sake of completion.