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I. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES 1. Early Theories of Hypnosis: A Clinical Perspective, Melvin A. Gravitz. 2. History and Historigraphy of Hypnosis, Nicholas P. Spanos & John F. Chaves. II. SINGLE-FACTOR THEMES The Neodissociation Perspective 3. A Neodissociation Interpretation of Hypnosis, Ernest R. Hilgard. 4. A Neodissociative Critique of Spanos's Social-Psychological Model of Hypnosis, Kenneth S. Bowers & Thomas M. Davidson. 5. Hypnotizability: Individual Differences in Dissociation and the Flexible Control of Psychological Processes, Frederick J. Evans. Hypnosis as Psychological Regression 6. Hypnosis as a Special Case of Psychological Regression, Michael R. Nash. Hypnosis as Relaxation 7. Anesis, William E. Edmonston, Jr. III. CLINICAL PERSPECTIVES 8. The Locksmith Model: Accessing Hypnotic Responsiveness, Joseph Barber. 9. Ericksonian Hypnotherapy: A Communications Approach to Hypnosis, Jeffrey K. Zeig & Peter J. Rennick. IV. THE SOCIAL-COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE 10. Role Theory: Hypnosis from a Dramaturgical and Narrational Perspective, William C. Coe & Theodore R. Sarbin. 11. A Social-Cognitive Approach to Hypnosis, Nicholas P. Spanos. 12. Compliance, Belief, and Semantics in Hypnosis: A Nonstate, Social-Cognitive Perspective, Graham F. Wagstaff. 13. An Integrative Model of Hypnosis, Steven Jay Lynn & Judith W. Rhue. 14. The Social Learning Theory of Hypnosis, Irving Kirsch. 15. The Ecosystemic Approach to Hypnosis, David P. Fourie. V. INTERACTIVE-PHENOMENOLOGICAL MODELS 16. Two Disciplines of Scientific Hypnosis: A Synergistic Model, Robert Nadon, Jean-Roch Laurence, and Campbell W. Perry. 17. Hypnosis, Context, and Commitment, Peter W. Sheehan. 18. The Construction and Resolution of Experience and Behavior in Hypnosis, Kevin M. McConkey. 19. Toward a Social-Psychobiological Model of Hypnosis, Eva I. Banyai. VI. CONCLUSIONS 20. Hypnosis Theories: Themes, Variations, and Research Directions, Steven Jay Lynn & Judith W. Rhue.