Hypnosis and Conscious States: The Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective

by Graham Jamieson

Overview

Hypnosis provides a rich paradigm for those seeking to understand the processes that underlye consciousness. This book describes the latest advances in understanding hypnosis and similar trance states by researchers within the neuroscience of consciousness.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198569800
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/15/2007
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	9.60(w) x 6.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr Jamieson is a specialist in the cognitive neuroscience of consciousness and cognitive control and in the field of hypnosis and related states. He completed his PhD in hypnosis and Stroop research with Prof. Peter Sheehan at the University of Queensland and a postdoctoral position in Cognitive Neuroscience at Imperial College London. Currently he lectures in human neuropsychology at the University of New England. He continues to work closely, on EEG or combined EEG-fMRI research projects, with colleagues in Australia, Germany, Japan, North America and the United Kingdom.
In Australia he regularly contributes to professional training conducted by the Australian Society for Hypnosis. He has also served as an expert witness on hypnosis in the Royal Courts of Justice (UK) and is often called upon to give expert commentary on television, in newspapers, on radio and in public debates.

Table of Contents

Introduction1. Previews and prospects for the cognitive neroscience of hypnosis and conscious states, Graham A JamiesonPart I - Functional Brain Networks2. Hypnotic regulation of consciousness and the pain neuromatrix, Melanie Boly, Marie-Elisabeth Faymonville, Brent Vogt, Pierre Maquet & Steven Laureys3. Cognitive control processes and hypnosis, Tobias Egner & Amir Raz4. Cortical mechanisms of hypnotic pain control, Wolfgang H R Miltner & Thomas Weiss5. Phase-ordered gamma oscillations and the modulation of hypnotic experience, Vilfredo de PascalisPart II - Dissociation6. Hypnosis and the unity of consciousness, Tim Bayne7. Dissociated control as a paradigm for cognitive-neuroscience research and theorising in hypnosis, Graham A Jamieson & Erik WoodyPart III - States of Consciousness8. New paradigms of hypnosis research, Graham A Jamieson & Harutomo Hasegawa9. Hypnosis and neuroscience: implications for the altered state debate, Steven Jay Lynn, Irving Kirsch, Josh Knox & Scott O Lilienfeld10. An empirical-phenomenological approach to quantifying consciousness and states of consciousness: with particular reference to understanding the nature of hypnosis, Ronald J Pekala & V Krishna Kumar11. On the contribution of neurophysiology to hypnosis research: current state and future directions, Adrian BurgessPart IV - The Psychobiology of Trance12. The experience of consciousnesss and hypnosis from an evolutionary perspective, William J Ray13. To see feelingly: emotion, motivation and hypnosis, Erik Woody & Henry Szechtman14. States of absorption: in search of neurobiologial foundations, Ulrich Ott15. Time distortion, and the nature of hypnosis and consciousness, Peter L N Naish16. Executive control without conscious awareness: the cold control theory of hypnosis, Zoltan Dienes & Josef Perner