[The development of a questionnaire scale for determining individual hypnotizability]

Area of Science:

• Psychology
• Clinical Psychology

Context:

• Hypnotherapy is a therapeutic technique that utilizes hypnosis.
• Assessing an individual's hypnotizability is crucial for effective hypnotherapy.
• Existing methods for assessing hypnotizability can be time-consuming or require direct hypnotic induction.

Purpose:

• To develop and validate a predictive scale for individual hypnotizability.
• To create a pre-treatment assessment tool for hypnotherapy.
• To provide a reliable method for estimating a patient's potential responsiveness to hypnosis.

Summary:

• A scale-questionnaire was developed based on the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).
• Forty-two assertions were identified; affirmative responses predict probable hypnotizability.
• The new scale is comparable to the Katkov scale for assessing hypnotic state depth.

Impact:

• Facilitates personalized hypnotherapy by predicting patient responsiveness.
• Enables clinicians to tailor treatment strategies based on predicted hypnotizability.
• Offers a non-intrusive method for assessing hypnotic potential prior to therapy initiation.