The Collected Works of Milton H. Erickson: Volume 06 - Hardcover: Classical Hypnotic Phenomena, Part 2: Memory and Hallucination

This volume highlights some of the most significant transitions from his classical papers about hypnotic phenomena written during his early career when he was working in isolation to his eventual co-authorship with a number of his colleagues and students over two generations. The final section of this volume, “Explorations in Hypnosis Research and Practice,” presents an overview of some of these developments from Erickson’s founding of The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis to the present. An interesting example of a practical, teachable, action model of Ericksonian approaches to therapeutic hypnosis and psychotherapy is offered, for example, by the current editor of The American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, Stephen Lankton, in his chapter: “A Basic Footprint of Erickson’s Process of Change.”

Table of Contents

1. Memory and Hallucination
   • Memory and Hallucination Part 1: Ernest Rossi
   • Memory and Hallucination Part 2: Ernest Rossi
2. Visual Process
   • The Hypnotic Induction of Hallucinatory Color Vision Followed by Psuedonegative Afterimages (written with E. M. Erickson)
   • Discussion: Critical Comments on Hibler’s Presentation of His Work on Negative Afterimages of Hypnotically Induced Hallucinated Colors (written by E. M. Erickson)
   • The Induction of Color Blindness by a Technique of Hypnotic Suggestion
   • An Experimental Investigation of the Hypnotic Subject’s Apparent Ability to Become Unaware of Stimuli
   • The Development of an Acute Limited Obsessional Hysterical State in a Normal Hypnotic Subject
   • Observations Concerning Alterations in Hypnosis of Visual Perceptions (written by E. M. Erickson)
   • Further Observations on Hypnotic Alteration of Visual Perception (written by E. M. Erickson)
   • An Investigation of Optokinetic Nystagmus
   • Acquired Control of Pupillary Responses
3. Auditory Processes
   • A Study of Clinical and Experimental Findings on Hypnotic Deafness: I. Clinical Experimentation and Findings
   • A Study of Clinical and Experimental Findings on Hypnotic Deafness: II. Experimental Findings with a Conditioned Response Technique
   • Chemo-Anaesthesia in Relation to Hearing and Memory
   • A Field Investigation by Hypnosis of Sound Loci Importance in Human Behavior
4. Time Distortion
   • Time Distortion in Hypnosis, I (written by L. F. Cooper)
   • Time Distortion in Hypnosis, II (written by L. F. Cooper)
   • The Clinical and Therapeutic Applications of Time Distortion
   • Further Considerations of Time Distortion: Subjective Time Condensation as Distinct from Time Expansion (written by E. M. Erickson)
5. Explorations in Hypnosis Research
   • Explorations in Hypnosis Research (with a discussion by T. X. Barber, R. Dorcus, H. Guze, T. Sarbin, and A. Weitzenhoffer)
   • Basic Psychological Problems in Hypnotic Research
   • A Basic Footprint of Milton H. Erickson’s Process of Change (by Stephen Lankton, MSW, DAHB)
   • The Creative Psychosocial Genomic Healing Experience: An Ideo-plastic Healing Scale Administration, Rationale and Research - An Open Invitation to Clinical and Experimental Research