Multiple Identities and False Memories: A Sociocognitive Perspective, Nicholas Spanos's 1996 book published by the American Psychological Association, reports controlled experimental work showing hypnotically elicited past-life identities track the expectations the hypnotist supplies rather than emerging spontaneously. Its strength is controlled experimental evidence published by the discipline's own professional body. Its limit is that Spanos writes from an explicitly sociocognitive position, one of several competing frameworks for hypnosis and dissociation, not the only one; this atlas cites it for its specific experimental findings.
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Nicholas Spanos's Multiple Identities and False Memories, A Sociocognitive Perspective, published by the American Psychological Association in 1996, the top tier reflecting controlled experimental evidence, published by the discipline's own professional body, showing hypnotically elicited past-life identities track the expectations the hypnotist supplies rather than emerging spontaneously, notwithstanding that Spanos writes from an explicitly sociocognitive position, one of several competing frameworks for hypnosis and dissociation. NotesIncludes the experimental work showing that hypnotically elicited past-life identities track the expectations supplied by the hypnotist.
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AuthorNicholas P. Spanos
PublisherAmerican Psychological Association
Publication Year1996
Source Typebook
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- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
- Practices, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
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