Current research in self-hypnotic phenomenology: The Chicago paradigm

Abstract

This paper discusses the research of the Chicago group program (Fromm, Brown, Hurt, Oberlander, Boxer, & amp; Pfeifer, 1981) from several viewpoints: first, as a conceptual and methodological example of what Shor (1977) has called the “phenomenological method” of hypnosis research; second, in terms of its intent and assumptions with respect to some other current self-hypnosis research; third, as potentially plagued with certain demand characteristics which favor finding phenomena unique to self-hypnosis; and fourth, as a most creative and exhaustive effort, clarifying and expanding the field of knowledge of self-hypnosis.