On alien abduction, you could try these:
[112] Courtlandt Bryan, Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (New York: Knopf, 1995)
[113] Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality: A Field Guide to the Otherworld (London: Viking, 1994)
[114] Whitley Strieber, Communion (London: Century, 1987)
9. Freud and Other Alienists
On Freud's involvement with hypnotism, see:
[115] Melvin Gravitz and Manuel Gerton, ‘Freud and Hypnosis: Report of Post-rejection Use’, Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 17 (1981), 68–74
[116]——— ‘Polgar as Freud's Hypnotist? Contrary Evidence’, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 24 (1982), 272– 6
[117] Milton Kline, Freud and Hypnosis: The Interaction of Psychodynamics and Hypnosis (New York: Julian Press, 1958)
[118]——— ‘Freud and Hypnosis: A Reevaluation’, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 20 (1972), 252–63
[119] Jerome Schneck, ‘Countertransference in Freud's Rejection of Hypnosis’, American Journal of Psychiatry, 110 (1954), 928–31
[120]——— ‘A Reevaluation of Freud's Abandonment of Hypnosis’, Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 1 (1965), 191–5
On the history of the unconscious before Freud, see:
[121] Lancelot Whyte, The Unconscious Before Freud (New York: Basic Books, 1960)
On multiple personality disorder (MPD):
[122] Eugene Bliss, Multiple Personalities, Allied Disorders and Hypnosis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986)
[123] Eric Carlson, ‘Multiple Personality and Hypnosis: The First 100 Years’, Journal of the History of the Behavioural Sciences, 25 (1989), 315–22
[124] Adam Crabtree, Multiple Man: Explorations in Possession and Multiple Personality (New York: Praeger, 1985)
[125]——— ‘Mesmerism, Divided Consciousness, and Multiple Personality’ in Heinz Schott (ed.), Franz Anton Mesmer und die Geschichte des Mesmerismus (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 1985), 133–43
[126] Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory (Princeton University Press, 1995)
[127] Daniel Keyes, The Minds of Billy Milligan (New York: Random House, 1981)
[128] Morton Prince, The Dissociation of a Personality, 2nd edn (New York: Longmans, Green, 1908)
[129] Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1973)
[130] Christine Sizemore and Elen Pittilo, I'm Eve (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1977)
[131] Corbett Thigpen and Hervey Cleckley, The Three Faces of Eve (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1957)
10. State or No State: The Modern Controversy
There is an amazing quantity of modern research on hypnosis, much of it far too technical for inclusion in this bibliography, and much of it located within the covers of specialist academic periodicals, especially: American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis; British Journal of Medical Hypnotism; Contemporary Hypnosis; International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis; Journal of Abnormal Psychology; Journal of the International Society for Professional Hypnosis
As an introduction to Milton Erickson's work, this one could hardly be bettered:
[132] William O'Hanlon, Taproots: Underlying Principles of Milton Erickson's Therapy and Hypnosis (New York: Norton, 1987)
Then see Erickson's own writings, especially:
[133] Milton Erickson and Ernest Rossi, Hypnotherapy: An Exploratory Casebook (New York: Irvington, 1979)
[134] Milton Erickson, Ernest Rossi and Shiela Rossi, Hypnotic Realities: The Induction of Clinical Hypnosis and Forms of Indirect Suggestion (New York: Irvington, 1976)
The most popular treatment of those psychologists who deny the existence of hypnosis is:
[135] Robert Baker, They Call It Hypnosis (Amherst: Prometheus Books, 1990)
Rather less strident than Baker's book is:
[136] Peter Naish (ed.), What is Hypnosis? Current Theories and Research (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986)
A good but technical debate on neodissociationism (here in chronological order) is:
[137] Irving Kirsch and Steven Jay Lynn, ‘Dissociation Theories of Hynposis’, Psychological Bulletin, 123 (1998), 100–15
[138] John Kihlstrom, ‘Dissociations and Dissociation Theory in Hypnosis: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn’, Psychological Bulletin, 123 (1998), 186–91
[139] Erik Woody and Pamela Sadler, ‘On Reintegrating Dissociated Theories: Comment on Kirsch and Lynn’, Psychological Bulletin, 123 (1998), 192–7
[140] Irving Kirsch and Steven Jay Lynn, ‘Dissociating the Wheat from the Chaff in Theories of Hypnosis: Reply to Kihlstrom (1998) and Woody and Sadler (1998)’, Psychological Bulletin, 123 (1998), 198–202
The following works, mostly summaries rather than original research articles, are all worth consulting and will introduce the reader to a spread of views:
[141] Theodore Barber, Hypnosis: A Scientific Approach (New York: Van Nostrand, 1969)
[142] Theodore Barber, Nicholas Spanos and John Chaves, Hypnotism, Imagination, and Human Potentialities (New York: Pergamon, 1974)
[143] William Edmonston, Hypnosis and Relaxation: Modern Verification of an Old Equation (New York: Wiley, 1980)
[144] Erika Fromm and Michael Nash (eds.), Contemporary Hypnosis Research (New York: Guilford, 1992)
[145] Erika Fromm and Ronald Shor (eds.), Hypnosis: Developments in Research and New Perspectives, 2nd edn (New York: Aldine, 1979)
[146] Ernest Hilgard, ‘Hypnosis’, Annual Review of Psychology, 16 (1965), 157–80
[147]——— The Experience of Hypnosis (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968)
[148]——— ‘Hypnotic Phenomena: The Struggle for Scientific Respectability’, American Scientist, 59 (1971), 567–77
[149]——— ‘Hypnosis’, Annual Review of Psychology, 26 (1975), 19–44
[150]——— Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human Thought and Action (New York: Wiley, 1977)
[151] Ernest and Josephine Hilgard, Hypnosis in the Relief of Pain, 3rd edn (New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1994)
[152] Clark Hull, Hypnosis and Suggestibility: An Experimental Approach (New York: Appleton-Century, 1933)
[153] John Kihlstrom, ‘Hypnosis’, Annual Review of Psychology, 36 (1985), 385–418
[154] Irving Kirsch and Steven Jay Lynn, ‘The Altered State of Hypnosis: Changes in the Theoretical Landscape’, American Psychologist, 50 (1996), 846 –58
[155] Theodore Sarbin and William Coe, Hypnosis: A Social Psychological Analysis of Influence Communication (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972)
[156] Peter Sheehan and Campbell Perry, Methodologies of Hypnosis: A Critical Appraisal of Contemporary Paradigms of Hypnosis (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1976)
[157] Nicholas Spanos and John Chaves (eds.), Hypnosis: The Cognitive– Behavioral Perspective (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 1989)
[158] Graham Wagstaff, Hypnosis, Compliance, and Belief (New York: St Martin's Press, 1981)
[159]——— ‘The Semantics and Physiology of Hypnosis as an Altered State: Towards a Definition of Hypnosis’, Contemporary Hypnosis, 15 (1998), 149–65
[160] André Weitzenhoffer, Hypnotism: An Objective Study in Suggestibility (New York: Wiley, 1953)
On the neurophysiology of hypnosis:
[161] David Concar, ‘You Are Feeling Very, Very Sleepy’, New Scientist, 4 July 1998, 26–31
[162] Helen Crawford, ‘Brain Dynamics and Hypnosis’, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 42 (1994), 204–32
[163] Vilfredo DePascalis, ‘Event-related Potentials During Hypnotic Hallucination’, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 42 (1994), 39–55
[164] John Gruzelier, ‘A Working Model of the Neurophysiology of Hypnosis: A Review of the Evidence’, Contemporary Hypnosis, 15 (1998), 3–21
[165] Jean Holroyd, ‘Hypnosis Treatment of Clinical Pain’, International Journal
of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 44 (1996), 33–51
[166] Paul Jasuikaitis et al., ‘Relateralizing Hypnosis: Or, Have We Been Barking Up the Wrong Hemisphere?’, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 45 (1997), 158–77
[167] Stephen Kosslyn et al., ‘Hypnotic Visual Illusion Alters Color Processing in the Brain’, American Journal of Psychiatry, 157 (2000), 1279–84
[168] William Ray, ‘EEG Concomitants of Hypnotic Susceptibility’, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 45 (1997), 301–13
[169] David Spiegel, ‘Neurophysiological Correlates of Hypnosis and Dissociation’, Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 3 (1991), 440 –5
[170] David Spiegel and Paul Jasuikaitis, ‘Hypnosis: Brain Basis’ in G. Adelman and B.H. Smith (eds.), Elsevier's Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, 2nd edn (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999), 924–7
[171] David Spiegel et al., ‘Hypnotic Hallucination Alters Evoked Potentials’, Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 94 (1985), 249–55
[172]——— ‘Hypnotic Alteration of Somatosensory Perception’, American Journal of Psychiatry, 146 (1989), 749–54
11. Hypnotherapy: Mind and Body
Most of the general books on hypnosis listed at the start of this bibliography will cover the topic, so I list here, out of hundreds of works, just a few that will help a general reader understand the present state of the art. I haven't found a really outstanding introductory book, but this one is pretty good:
[173] Brian Roet, Hypnosis: A Gateway to Better Health (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986)
A standard clinical textbook is:
[174] John Hartland, Medical and Dental Hypnosis and Its Clinical Applications, 3rd edn, ed. David Waxman (London: Baillière Tindall, 1989)
Two excellent scholarly books are:
[175] Daniel Brown and Erika Fromm, Hypnotherapy and Hypnoanalysis (London: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1986)
[176] H.B. Gibson and Michael Heap, Hypnosis in Therapy (London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1991)
Then see also:
[177] Joseph Barber, Hypnosis and Suggestion in the Treatment of Pain (New York: Norton, 1996)
[178] E. Thomas Dowd and James Healy, Case Studies in Hypnotherapy (New York: Guilford Press, 1986)
[179] Robert Lindner, Rebel Without a Cause: The Hypnoanalysis of a Criminal Psychopath (New York: Grune and Stratton, 1944)
On the possible after-effects of hypnosis:
[180] Lennis Echterling and David Emmerling, ‘Impact of Stage Hypnosis’, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 29 (1987), 149–54
[181] Moris Kleinhauz and Ilana Eli, ‘Potential Deleterious Effects of Hypnosis in the Clinical Setting’, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 29 (1987), 155–9
[182] Moris Kleinhauz et al., ‘Some After-effects of Stage Hypnosis: A Case Study of Psychopathological Manifestations’, International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 27 (1979), 219–26
[183] Frank MacHovec, ‘Hypnosis Complications: Six Cases’, American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis, 29 (1987), 160–5
[184] Tracie O'Keefe, Investigating Stage Hypnosis (London: Extraordinary People Press, 1988)
[185] Louis West and Gordon Deckert, ‘Dangers of Hypnosis’, Journal of the American Medical Association, 192 (1965), 9–12
Closely related to the topic of hypnotherapy is the topic of mind–body interaction. Again something of interest will often be found in academic journals, especially the following: Advances: Journal of the Institute for the Advancement of Health; International Journal of Psychosomatics; Journal of the American Society of Psychosomatic Dentistry and Medicine; Journal of Psychosomatic Research; Psychosomatic Medicine.
If you were to read only one book on the subject it would have to be:
[186] Robert Sapolsky, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-related Diseases, and Coping (New York: Freeman, 1998)
But it would be a crime to omit the following too, which are all excellent:
[187] Franz Alexander, Psychosomatic Medicine: Its Principles and Applications (London: Allen and Unwin, 1952)
[188] Herbert Benson, Timeless Healing: The Power and Biology of Belief (London: Simon and Schuster, 1996)
[189] Howard and Martha Lewis, Psychosomatics (New York: Pinnacle Books, 1975)
[190] Steven Locke and Douglas Colligan, The Healer Within: The New Medicine of Mind and Body (New York: Dutton, 1986)
[191] Robert Ornstein and David Sobel, The Healing Brain: Breakthrough Discoveries About How the Brain Keeps Us Healthy (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987)
[192] Robert Ornstein and Charles Swencionis (eds.), The Healing Brain: A Scientific Reader (New York: Guilford Press, 1990)
[193] Ernest Rossi, The Psychobiology of Mind–Body Healing (New York: Norton, 1986)
On the placebo effect in particular, see:
[194] Arthur and Elaine Shapiro, The Powerful Placebo: From Ancient Priest to Modern Physician (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)
[195] Margaret Talbot, ‘The Placebo Prescription’, New York Times Magazine, 9 Jan. 2000, 34–9, 44, 58– 60
12. Mind Control
On mind control in general:
[196] Albert Biderman and Herbert Zimmer (eds.), The Manipulation of Human Behavior (New York: Wiley, 1961)
[197] James Brown, Techniques of Persuasion (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963)
[198] William Sargant, Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing (London: Heinemann, 1957)
[199] Charles Tart, Waking Up: Overcoming the Obstacles to Human Potential (Boston: Shambala, 1986)
On advertising and selling:
[200] Wilson Bryan Key, Subliminal Seduction: Ad Media's Manipulation of a Not So Innocent America (New York: New American Library, 1973)
[201] Naomi Klein, No Logo (London: Flamingo, 2000)
[202] Donald Moine and Kenneth Lloyd, Unlimited Selling Power: How to Master Hypnotic Selling Skills (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1990)
[203] Vance Packard, The Hidden Persuaders (New York: David McKay, 1957)
On tyranny, gurus and cults:
[204] Joel Kramer and Diana Alstad, The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1993)
On the notorious CIA experiments:
[205] Donald Bain, The Control of Candy Jones (Chicago: Playboy Press, 1977)
[206] William Bowart, Operation Mind Control (New York: Dell, 1978)
[207] John Marks, The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control (New York: Times Books, 1979)
[208] Alan Scheflin and Edward Opton, The Mind Manipulators (New York: Paddington Press, 1978)
[209] Gordon Thomas, Journey Into Madness: The True Story of Secret CIA Mind Control and Medical Abuse (New York: Bantam, 1989)
13. Self-improvement and the New Age
Several of the practices surveyed in this chapter are associated with the movement known as ‘New Age’, on which an outstanding book is:
[210] Paul Heelas, The New Age Movement (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
A good anthology of essays covering a number of topics in this chapter is:
[211] Charles Tart (ed.), Altered States of Consciousness: A Book of Readings (New York: Wiley, 1969)
On the neurophysiology of trance states, see:
[212] Barbara Lex, ‘The Neurobiology of Ritual Trance’ in Eugene d'Aquili et al. (eds), The Spectrum of Ritual: A Biogenetic Structural Analysis (New York: Columbia University Press, 1979), 117–51
[213] Michael Winkelman, ‘Trance States: A Theoretical Model and Cross-cultural Analysis’ in Ethos, 14 (1986), 174–203
Of the many books on self-hypnosis, here are just a couple:
[214] Leslie LeCron, Self-hypnotism: The Technique and Its Use in Daily Living (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1964)
[215] Wolfgang Linden, Autogenic Training: A Clinical Guide (New York: Guilford Press, 1990)
On
channelling:
[216] Michael Brown, The Channeling Zone: American Spirituality in an Anxious Age (Harvard University Press, 1997)
[217] Wouter Hanegraaff, New Age Religion and Western Culture: Esotericism in the Mirror of Secular Thought (Leiden: Brill, 1996)
On affirmations:
[218] Charles Baudouin, Suggestion and Autosuggestion (London: Allen and Unwin, 1920)
[219] Emile Coué, My Method (1923; Santa Fe: Sun Books, 1983)
[220]——— How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion (1923; Santa Fe: Sun Books, 1992)
[221] Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (1953; London: Ebury Press, 1998)
On visualizations:
[222] Shakti Gawain, Creative Visualization (New York: New World Library, 1978)
[223] Mike and Nancy Samuels, Seeing with the Mind's Eye: The History, Techniques and Uses of Visualization (New York: Random House, 1975)
[224] Anees Sheikh (ed.), Imagination and Healing (Farmingdale, NY: Baywood, 1984)
On recreational drugs:
[225] Theodore Barber, LSD, Marihuana, Yoga and Hypnosis (Chicago: Aldine, 1970)
On neurolinguistic programming (NLP):
[226] Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Frogs into Princes (Moab, UT: Real People Press, 1979)
[227] Joseph O'Connor and John Seymour, Introducing Neuro-Linguistic Programming, 2nd edn (London: HarperCollins, 1993)
On meditation (not that this is something you can study through books):
[228] Herbert Benson, The Relaxation Response (New York: William Morrow, 1975)
[229] Joan Borysenko, Minding the Body, Mending the Mind (New York: Addison-Wesley, 1987)
[230] Deane Shapiro, Meditation: Self-regulation Strategy and Altered State of Consciousness (New York: Aldine, 1980)
[231] Deane Shapiro and Roger Walsh (eds.), Meditation: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives (New York: Aldine, 1984) See also the massive bibliography in [101].
On shamanism:
[232] Mircea Eliade, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy (New York: Pantheon Books, 1964)
[233] Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman (New York: Harper & Row, 1980)
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