RT Journal
A1 Roth D
T1 TIme distortion in hypnosis.
JF A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry
JO A.M.A. Archives of General Psychiatry
YR 1959
FD October 1
VO 1
IS 4
SP 450
OP 452
DO 10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590040120014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpsyc.1959.03590040120014
AB In its first edition the presentation of the phenomenon of time distortion was considered the first new discovery in hypnosis in well over one hundred years. This edition deals more completely with the experimental and clinical aspects of the phenomenon, specialized techniques for its induction, diverse associated psychological phenomena, and reports of its use in therapy.The methodology presented reflects ten years of refinement, and the conclusions are derived from eight hundred hours of experimental work with subjects. The subject undergoing time distortion in the hypnotic trance is one who can be trained progressively to respond to deliberate alterations of his subjective awareness of the passage of time differing from “world time” or “clock time.” Most of the studies in the book concern the phenomenon of subjective time increase; i. e., the subject experiences a much larger span of time than is indicated by a watch dial. The