MAY 2008, VOLUME 36, NUMBER 2, Abstract 9
Hypnosis Absorption and Rapport From the Perspective of Social, Affective, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Graham Jamieson, University of New England, Armidale
Neuroscientific findings from studies utilising hypnosis will be located within the growing knowledge of functionally distinct and mutually inhibitory neural networks mediating internal and external self-regulation. Tellegen’s revised concept of “absorption” is presented as an essential bridge between functional and neuroscientific accounts of hypnosis. Rapport is a key concept in the clinical practice of hypnosis which has largely eluded experimental researchers. Developments in social and affective neuroscience will be employed to reassess the nature of rapport as it occurs in the hypnotic setting.