Measuring Hypnotizability and Suggestibility

Standardized Scales

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• Purpose

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• Hypnotic susceptibility scales were developed for "reliable measurement of hypnotic susceptibility" to understand how and why hypnosis works, and to assist clinicians.

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• Common Scales

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• Widely used scales include the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A), and the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Forms A, B, and C (SHSS:A, SHSS:B, SHSS:C).

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• The SHSS:C is considered the "gold standard" for assessing hypnotizability.

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• Types of Suggestions Measured

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• Scales test a range of hypnotic domains, including

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• "ideomotor suggestions"

• (motor activity arm levitation)

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• "challenge suggestions"

• (inhibition of motor activity

• arm catalepsy)

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• "perceptual alterations"

• (positive and negative

• hallucinations)

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• cognitive alterations

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• age-regression

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• posthypnotic suggestion

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• posthypnotic amnesia.

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• The Stanford Profile Scales of Hypnotic Susceptibility (SPSHS) are designed to generate a profile of strengths and weaknesses rather than a single score.

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