Hypnosis for the Seriously Curious

by Kenneth S. Bowers

Book Overview

With this innovative book Kenneth Bowers provides an unusually clear and coherent introduction to a puzzling and elusive subject. Organizing his presentation around the major questions surrounding this often paradoxical phenomenon--Are hypnotic effects genuine? What is hypnotic suggestibility and the hypnotic state? Can anyone be hypnotized?--the author takes the reader systematically through the pivotal experiments in the field. And more, his evenhanded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393953394
• ISBN13: 9780393953398
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Just what the title says it is

Originally published in 1976, and in need of some revision, this remains the single best introduction to hypnosis -- what it is and what it isn't, what it can do and what it can't. Highly accessible.