Cowles R S
Department of Psychology, Duquesne University, USA.
J Psychol. 1998 Jul;132(4):357-66. doi: 10.1080/00223989809599270.
Hypnosis is often disregarded and undervalued because it cannot be currently explained by natural science or scientific method. An alternative existential psychology paradigm, specifically an existential-phenomenological model, is offered here to close the gap between the theoretical and the actual clinical practice of hypnosis. This existential-phenomenological model emphasizes the individual's experience over any preconceived notions or diagnoses. In this context, the author introduces and discusses the idea that perception prefigures embodiment, creating the power of suggestion. And children's greater overall hypnotic susceptibility is explained as a result of natural unbiased observations of the world, free of the mind-body split that adults apply to perception.
催眠术常常被忽视和低估，因为目前自然科学或科学方法无法对其作出解释。本文提供了一种替代性的存在主义心理学范式，具体来说是一种存在主义现象学模型，以弥合催眠术理论与实际临床实践之间的差距。这种存在主义现象学模型强调个人的体验，而非任何先入为主的观念或诊断。在此背景下，作者引入并讨论了一种观点，即感知预示着具体体现，从而产生暗示力量。儿童总体上更高的催眠易感性被解释为是对世界进行自然无偏见观察的结果，没有成年人应用于感知的身心二分法。
