PSYC 444

HYPNOSIS AND DISSOCIATION (3 credits)

    • Prerequisite: PSYC 310, 315, 340. This course critically examines research, theory, and methodological approaches relating to a number of selected issues of contemporary interest in the area of hypnosis and dissociative phenomena. Experimental and applied research on selected topics such as recovered memory, dissociation, pain and psychosomatic disorders, social and cognitive correlates of hypnotic responses, and the issue of coercion is reviewed. The forensic and clinical uses and abuses of hypnosis are surveyed and contrasted to experimental findings.

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Has the above picture gotten you a bit dazed?

This is a really neat course in Tier 2 under the “Clinical & Health” option.

I had Dr. Jean-Roche Laurence, a leading expert in the field of hypnosis. Try to attend all his lectures. He speaks very eloquently and passionately. You will learn a great deal from his lectures. (Also try to sit as close to the front as possible, as he speaks very softly)

Bookmark this website: http://hypnosis.tools/

Here is the course outline

(being updated..)

Paper:

  • Dr Laurence weighs your paper at 20% of your final grade.
  • About 8 pages long
  • He will give you a list of questions and you will choose one to address.
    • e.g. Is hypnotic analgesia a good method to control pain? Provide clinical and experimental evidence to support the use of this method in pain control.
    • e.g. Is hypnosis an altered state of consciousness? What is an altered state of consciousness? Can hypnosis be considered an altered state? Explain

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