NOVEMBER 2001, VOLUME 29, NUMBER 2, Abstract 1
Hypnosis in Australia 40 Years Ago: Recollections of Gordon Hammer, Martin Orne, and Philip Sutcliffe
Campbell Perry, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Concordia University, Montréal
Between December 1999 and August 2000, Australian hypnosis lost three of its major contributors – A. Gordon Hammer, Martin T. Orne and J. Philip Sutcliffe. I knew all of them well, and was deeply influenced by their thinking from the time that I began as a research student at the University of Sydney Psychology Department in 1960. This article seeks to describe their contributions to the field, and to share with readers some of their personal qualities that made knowing them such a delight.