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Article: Correspondence.(Letter to the editor)
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- The Journal of Parapsychology
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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To the Editor:
I recently read--and enjoyed--Cooper and Thalbourne's article (JP, 69, 139-150), which detailed a study that sought to test various predictions of McClenon's Ritual Healing Theory (e.g., McClenon, 2002). While I am pleased to see that researchers are examining this theory and investigating the relationships between anomalous experiences and hypnosis-related variables, the paper suffers from a number of conceptual shortcomings regarding hypnosis that I believe were not sufficiently addressed.
The primary item in the paper with which I would like to take issue is Cooper and Thalbourne's use of the Experience Inventory (As, O'Hara, & Munger, ...