Abstract
All investigators have found that some subjects are much more readily hypnotizable than others. It is sometimes assumed that all individuals can be hypnotized if circumstances are favorable, and successes have in fact been reported following hundreds of hours of failure. It is usually found, however, that if a person is not at least moderately susceptible within a few sessions, he is likely to remain refractory to hypnosis. In any case, the differences in susceptibility are striking enough to make it of interest to try to answer the question: Why is person A more hypnotizable than Person B?
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Hilgard, E.R., Hilgard, J.R. (1967). The Personality Background of Susceptibility to Hypnosis. In: Lassner, J. (eds) Hypnosis and Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-87028-6_19
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