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TIME DISTORTION

IN HYPNOSIS

An Experimental and Clinical Investigation

LINN F. COOPER, M.D.

and

MILTON H. ERICKSON, M.A., M.D.

¨ 2004 OTC Publishing Corp

www.ericksonianhypnosis.com

Preface to the Second Edition

The explication, in the first edition of this book, of the

experimental and clinical aspects of hypnotic time

distortion as a specific concept and a new technique

was a most intriguing task for the authors. The reception

accorded the book, as evidenced by favorable reviews, the

exhaustion of first and second printings, the receipt of

letters of inquiry about experimental procedures from

research workers in many parts of the country, even from

abroad, and the favorable comment from scores of

clinicians on their own utilization of hypnotic time

distortion, have been most stimulating.

However, the authors can take credit for only a small

part of this. The timing of the first edition, 1954, was

both fortuitous and fortunate. The impetus given by

World War II to the scientific use of hypnosis was

continuing in the form of progressive development of

general medical interest. The dental profession, long

interested, manifested this by taking the lead in

employing hypnosis in office practice. The efforts

previously made by the psychology departments of

various universities to arouse a widespread interest in

research in hypnosis took on a new vitality. Con-

temporaneous with this constantly growing interest, the

first edition was issued, and it profited greatly therefrom.

Additionally, it was a book written by physicians in which

purely experimental and purely clinical work with new

and different applications were presented-this at a time

of searching for new techniques for special adaptation to

the problems of psychosomatic medicine.

Less than a year after the first edition was published,

but expressive only of the fact that interest in scientific

hypnosis was not limited to any one country, the British

Medical Association formally approved of the medical use

and teaching of hypnosis and disapproved its use by the

laity. Also in 1955, Marquette University School of

Dentistry, and in 1956, Tufts University School of Dental -

Medicine, to give examples of academic interest,

conducted formal seminars on hypnosis as a part of

postgraduate instruction. Then, in 1957, The American

Society of Clinical Hypnosis was organized on a national

level with international affiliations with other national

scientific societies and with a membership based on a

doctoral degree in psychology, dentistry or medicine. Thus,

there was inaugurated an era of generalized professional

approval of scientific by hypnosis and the enlistment of the

interest and participation of clinicians everywhere.

In 1958, the American Medical Association formally

approved the use and teaching of hypnosis as a medical

methodology of significant value. Further recognition

was accorded by other national and state or regional

medical and dental societies.

Against the background of this interest, a second edition is

being issued as a restatement of a methodology offering an

opportunity for both research and clinical application in a

wide variety of problems in medicine and dentistry, both

physiological and psychological. Aside from minor

changes and additions to the first section of this book,

the justification for calling this issue a second edition is the

fact of an addition of a relatively brief but new and different

third section, clinically oriented but pith a variety of

experimental significances. This new section, in the

authors' opinion, constitutes a decidedly important

elaboration of another significant aspect of hypnotic time

distortion-an aspect only briefly mentioned in discussions

in the first edition, but which was entirely overlooked for

elaboration both experimentally and clinically. This phase

of hypnotic time distortion is the shortening or

condensation of subjective time experience, the

converse of the subjective lengthening or time

expansion treated at length in the first edition. Two types

of observational findings are employed to explicate the

manifestations of subjective time condensation, those

deriving from unplanned spontaneous developments and

those arising from a systematic employment of time

condensation as a clinical measure in the handling of

subjectively difficult or distressing experiences.

With this new section added to the book, the authors

feel that they have now restated and completed a

reasonably comprehensive description of the concept of

subjective hypnotic time distortion. It is their hope that

the experimental and clinical work of others will continue

the task of investigating the psychosomatic problems

involved in subjective time values, both expanded and

condensed, and which are so important, whether in health

or illness, in the experiential life of the individual.

L. F. C.

M. H. E.

Preface to the First Edition

The work reported in this monograph was done, as

occasion arose, in the period between February 1948 and

May 1954. As the experiments progressed, the findings

led to speculation concerning their significance and

possible implications. So intriguing were some of the

questions raised that, rather than attempting to study

exhaustively any single one of them, a number of pilot

experiments involving different problems were carried

out. In other words it was, in a sense, like making a series

of -short exploratory trips in various directions into a

strange land. It is the hope of the authors that this

presentation may stimulate others to venture further.

In Part I the author has freely drawn upon two articles,

"Time Distortion in Hypnosis. I" and "Time Distortion in

Hypnosis, II", originally published in the Bulletin of the

Georgetown University Medical Center. Furthermore,

Chapters 18, 19, and 22 are here reprinted, with some

changes, from articles appearing in the Journal of

Psychology and in Science. On the other hand, a good deal

of previously unpublished work is included in Part I. Part

II, in which case reports are presented, is entirely new

except for one section.

The authors are most grateful to Dr. Harold Rosen for

his interest and encouragement during the experimental

phase of the work. They also wish to thank the

Georgetown University Medical Center, the Macmillan

Company, the American Association for the

Advancement of Science, and Dr. Carl Murchison for

permission to use material formerly published by them.

L. F. C.

M. H. E.

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