Abstract 1. Proposes that hypnotically amnesic Ss maintain control over their memory
processes but often fail to breach amnesia because to do so would conflict with their self-
presentation as deeply hypnotized. Two experiments, with 16 undergraduates, ...

Abstract 1. Hypnotic amnesia is often interpreted as a deliberate effort to avoid thinking of
ideas or thoughts targeted for amnesia. However, as DM Wegner (1989) showed,
nonhypnotized individuals who deliberately attempt to suppress certain thoughts or ...

Abstract 1. Three experiments with 196 undergraduates assessed the hypothesis that
suggested amnesia for a previously learned word list is a function of Ss' interpretations of the
ambiguous aspects of the amnesia testing situation. By manipulating preliminary ...

Abstract Eight detailed examples of the varieties of hypnotic amnesia found in clinical and
naturalistic settings are presented together with a number of Erickson's innovative
approaches to inducing hypnotic amnesia. The relevance of these examples for current ...

Abstract 1. Four subjects who showed complete waking amnesia for trance events were
experimented on in a systematic manner. The apparent recall amnesia for trance learning,
15 minutes after the completion of the learning and 10 minutes after waking, appears to be ...

Abstract 1. It was hypothesized that if the process of repression is involved in posthypnotic
amnesia, then amnesia should occur more often for words related to a S's emotional
conflicts (critical) than to words which are not so related (neutral). An experimental group ...

Abstract 1. High susceptible (Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility) hypnotic and
high and low susceptible nonhypnotic (controls) undergraduates learned a categorized
word list to a stringent criterion. The hypnotic Ss were given an amnesia suggestion for the ...

There is a long history of clinical evidence for the presence of complete recognition amnesia
and recall amnesia in cases where retention is still unimpaired as proved bv the later
disappearance of the amnesia. In the studies of hysterical amnesias and of double ...