SCEH Presentation 2009
October 2009 “Ego State Therapy: The Need for Credible Research,” paper presentation at Society for Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis Annual Conference (SCEH) in Reno, Nevada.
In the presentation, the authors critically reviewed the extant research and examined some of the opportunities and problems for research with any form of polypsychism. They explored the need for, advantages, and pitfalls of efficacy, phenomenological, and single-case studies, and the relevance to cross-cultural studies. They offerred their reflections on fertile avenues of research in a number of germane areas, such as the role of hypnotizability, suggestibility, dissociation, and neurobiological research, and addresses the viability and complexity of using Ego States Therapy with individuals having belief systems in an “outside agency” that directs and facilitates personal and spiritual growth.
In the presentation, the authors critically reviewed the extant research and examined some of the opportunities and problems for research with any form of polypsychism. They explored the need for, advantages, and pitfalls of efficacy, phenomenological, and single-case studies, and the relevance to cross-cultural studies. They offerred their reflections on fertile avenues of research in a number of germane areas, such as the role of hypnotizability, suggestibility, dissociation, and neurobiological research, and addresses the viability and complexity of using Ego States Therapy with individuals having belief systems in an “outside agency” that directs and facilitates personal and spiritual growth.
©2010, 2011 copyright Joan H. Hageman, PhD
