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A note of caution on the Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of hypnotic susceptibility: a brief communication.

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Summary, in English

The scant literature on the sequelae of hypnotizability-measurement instruments indicates that different scales produce different reactions. The Waterloo-Stanford Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form C (WSGC) was developed as a group version of the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale, Form C (SHSS:C). Parallel to the literature showing that the SHSS:C can produce more negative aftereffects than the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A, we report preliminary descriptive statistics documenting the infrequent occurrence of negative reactions to the WSGC age-regression item. We recommend that experimenters take this matter into consideration and, at the very least, ensure the presence of a clinician with hypnotic experience during the administration of the WSGC.

Publishing year

2009

Language

English

Pages

222-226

Publication/Series

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

Volume

57

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Routledge

Topic

  • Psychiatry

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1744-5183