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Divided Consciousness: Multiple Controls in Human Thought and Action

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Altered States HypnosisDivided Consciousness

By Ernest Hilgard

Summary

"Hidden observer" monitors experience while hypnotized subject is unaware. Executive ego delegates control to subsystems. Hypnosis involves a dissociation of executive control functions.

Why It Matters

Most influential cognitive theory of hypnosis. Solved the hypnotic analgesia paradox (subject feels no pain but hidden observer registers it).

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