Books Related to Jaynes's Bicameral Mind Theory

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Hypnosis: History, Theory, and Practice

Books in this section are related to Book III, Chapter 4, "Hypnosis" in The Origin of Consciousness and the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind. See also, "The Self as Interiorized Social Relations: Applying a Jaynesian Approach to Problems of Agency and Volition" by Brian McVeigh in Reflections on the Dawn of Consciousness.

Suggestion and Autosuggestion Charles Baudouin, Sun Pub Company.

Hypnotism: Its History, Practice, and Theory J.M. Bramwell, New York: Julian Press, 1956.

How to Practice Suggestion and Autosuggestion Emile Coue, Kessinger Publishing Company.

A History of Hypnotism Alan Gauld,Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Handbook of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis J.E. Gordon, New York: Macmillan, 1967.

Hypnotic Susceptibility Ernest Hilgard, New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1965. Cited by Jaynes on p. 394.

Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human Thought and Action E.R. Hilgard, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1977/1986.

Personality and Hypnosis: A Study of Imaginative Involvement Josephine Hilgard, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970. Cited by Jaynes on p. 396.

Hypnosis and Suggestibility: An Experimental Approach Clark Hull, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1933. Cited by Jaynes on p. 394.

Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis in Medicine, Dentistry, and Psychology William S. Kroger, Lippincott-Raven Publishers, 1977.

The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature Michael Murphy, Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1992. Contains a good chapter on the history of hypnosis.

A Clinical Hypnosis Primer G.J. Pratt, D.P. Wood, and B.M. Alman, John Wiley and Sons, 1988.

The Unconscious: The Fundamentals of Human Personality Normal and Abnormal Morton Prince Cited by Jaynes on p. 392.

The Corruption of Reality: A Unified Theory of Religion, Hypnosis, and Psychopathology John F. Schumaker, Prometheus Books, 1995. This book challenges many of the ideas in the three disciplines of religion, hypnosis, and psychopathology and paves the way for an exciting, far-reaching and unified theory of conscious and unconscious behavior. Schumaker includes a historical and cross-cultural analysis which shows how reality reconstruction takes place and outlinesthe shortcomings of current psychotherapeutic approaches.

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