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The thesis of this paper was that psychodynamic variables affect both the induction of hypnosis and behavior after induction. It was, therefore, maintained that psychotherapists should feel comfortable about using the same psychodynamic principles to understand their hypnotized patients that they use to understand patients who are not hypnotized. Clinical situations involving hypnotic induction, behavior during hypnosis, depth of hypnosis, termination of hypnosis, and post-hypnotic behavior, were then presented to illustrate both the explanatory and practical usefulness of the application of psychodynamic thinking to hypnotic behavior.
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From the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Hospital. The writer would like to thank Drs. Albert I. Rabin, E. Lowell Kelly, and Melvin Manis for their helpful suggestions. However, it should be noted that the responsibility for the contents of this paper rests solely with the writer; also, the contents do not necessarily represent the opinions or policy of the Veterans Administration.
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Bookbinder, L.J. The application of psychodynamic thinking to hypnotic behavior. Psych Quar 35, 488–496 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01573616
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