Starker S
Am J Psychother. 1975 Jul;29(3):402-8. doi: 10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1975.29.3.402.
The findings of behaviorally oriented research regarding the importance of cognitive-motivational variables in hypnosis are examined and some clinical and theoretical implications are explored. Hypnosis seems usefully conceptualized as a complex configuration or gestalt of interacting variables on several different levels, for example, cognitive, motivational, social, physiologic.