Kirsch I, Lynn S J
Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Storrs 06269-1020.
Psychol Bull. 1998 Mar;123(2):198-202. doi: 10.1037/0033-2909.123.2.198.
Although there are noteworthy commonalities among disparate theories of hypnosis, they are neither as readily integrated nor as complementary as J.F. Kihlstrom (1998) and E. Woody and P. Sadler (1998) implied. All current theories of hypnosis, including our social cognitive model, are provisional and incomplete, and each has something of value to offer. However, the multiple streams of consciousness hypothesis and the hypnotic state hypothesis should be abandoned because they are neither well supported by data nor consistent with current research and theory in social and cognitive psychology. In their place, the authors propose theoretical formulations based on such concepts as response sets, hierarchical control systems, associative memory networks, automatic activation of behavior, motivation, intention, and response expectancy.
尽管不同的催眠理论之间存在值得注意的共性，但它们并不像J.F.基尔斯特龙（1998年）以及E.伍迪和P.萨德勒（1998年）所暗示的那样易于整合或相互补充。当前所有的催眠理论，包括我们的社会认知模型，都是临时的且不完整的，每一种理论都有其价值所在。然而，意识流多重假设和催眠状态假设应该被摒弃，因为它们既没有得到数据的充分支持，也与社会和认知心理学的当前研究及理论不一致。取而代之的是，作者们基于诸如反应定势、层级控制系统、联想记忆网络、行为的自动激活、动机、意图和反应预期等概念提出了理论构想。
