Barnier Amanda J, McConkey Kevin M
School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Int J Clin Exp Hypn. 2003 Jul;51(3):282-308. doi: 10.1076/iceh.51.3.282.15524.
Hypnosis research has contributed much to the understanding of human behavior and experience, both normal and abnormal. This paper considers ways in which neuroscience approaches may be integrated into hypnosis research to continue and enhance that contribution, as well as further reveal the nature of hypnosis itself. The authors review the influences on and advances in hypnosis research over the last century; illustrate the investigative value of hypnosis to selected phenomena across the areas of doing, feeling, believing, and remembering; and specify elements for the successful integration of neuroscience approaches into hypnosis research. The authors believe that hypnosis research offers powerful techniques to isolate psychological processes in ways that allow their neural bases to be mapped. Successful integration will be achieved when researchers add levels of explanation, rather than shift the emphasis from one level or feature to another.
催眠研究对理解正常和异常的人类行为及体验贡献颇丰。本文探讨了神经科学方法如何融入催眠研究，以延续并加强这一贡献，同时进一步揭示催眠本身的本质。作者回顾了上个世纪对催眠研究的影响及进展；阐述了催眠对行为、情感、信念和记忆等领域特定现象的研究价值；并明确了将神经科学方法成功融入催眠研究的要素。作者认为，催眠研究提供了强大的技术，能够以可绘制其神经基础的方式分离心理过程。当研究人员增加解释层次，而非将重点从一个层次或特征转移到另一个层次时，就能实现成功整合。
