EDITORIAL COMMENTARY: HYPNOSIS AND THE EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE

摘要

This is the first of a series of special issues devoted to presentations at the 11~(th) triennial congress of the European Society of Hypnosis in Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine that was held in Vienna, 17-21 September, 2008.The richness and diversity of European Clinical and Experimental Research in Hypnosis and Integrative Therapies is admirably represented in this heraldic issue. In the international context the European perspective is disclosed as one that firmly believes in the importance of classical hypnosis, in contrast to one whose primary, if not sole, focus is on the cognitive domain of suggestion.