ABSTRACT
The behavior and experiences of patients in trance are certainly unlike those in the waking state. Skilled clinicians previously unfamiliar with hypnosis typically react with a mixture of anxiety and fascination the first time they discover the special parameters that hypnosis introduces into the clinical situation. Because of the unusual nature of trance, even skilled clinicians feel like novices when first learning clinical hypnosis and unfortunately often temporarily suspend their years of clinical experience when they begin to learn about hypnosis.
