ABSTRACT

CONTENT

Hypnotic Experimental Treatments and the Presumed Hypnotic Trance State

Sensory-Perceptual Processes

Color-Blindness

Blindness

Visual Thresholds

Myopia (Nearsightedness)

Vestibular Nystagmus

Visual Hallucination

Deafness

Hallucinated (Imagined) Pain

Induction and Inhibition of Labor Contractions

Circulatory Functions

Vasomotor Functions

Cardiac Acceleration and Deceleration

Cardiac Standstill

Electrocardiogram Alterations

Metabolic and Gastrointestinal Functions

Blood Glucose Levels

Gastric Functions

Cutaneous Functions

Herpetic Blisters (Cold Sores)

Localized (Nonherpetic) Blisters

Warts

Ichthyosis

Allergic Skin Responses

Asthma

Secretory Functions

Salivation

Urine Secretion

Cold-Stress

Inhibition and Elicitation of Narcotic Drug Effects

Emotional Responses

Physiological Correlates of The Hypnotic State Per Se

Hypnotic Behavior Without an Hypnotic-Induction Procedure

Summary and Conclusions

References