Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This volume, first printed in 1933 helped shape the evolution of hypnosis. Today's clinicians and researchers owe much of what they currently do to the work of Clark Hull. He was a pioneer and explorer, searching for the means to make behaviorism -- and a behavioral view of hypnosis, an exact science.
In 1923, Milton H. Erickson, a second year undergraduate student, was at the University of Wisconsin where Hull was lecturing about hypnosis. It was an event that would change his life and would eventually influence the direction of the entire field of hypnosis.
The rigors associated with the kinds of scientific experimental methods described by Hull in this book have never been more relevant or timely. As such methods are further integrated into clinical research on specific patient populations, hopefully adding to the ever-increasing body of objective evidence attesting to the therapeutic value of hypnosis, our debt to Clark Hull will also be ever increasing.
Synopsis
Read the book by the man who taught Milton H. Erickson MD
In 1923, Erickson was a second year undergraduate student at the University of Wisconsin where his teacher, Clark L. Hull, was researching hypnosis and behaviourism: their encounter changed Erickson's life forever. This book explains Hull's experimental methods, results and the scientific approach to hypnosis, which, even today, are being integrated into clinical and therapeutic research. Long out of print, this seminal classic, has helped shape the evolution of hypnosis - as the first extensive systematic investigation of hypnosis using quantitative experimental methodology. Certainly today's clinicians and researchers owe much of what they currently do to the work of Clark Hull. He was a pioneer searching for the means to make behaviourism - and a behavioural view of hypnosis - an exact science.