HYPNOSIS WITH SIGNING DEAF AND HEARING SUBJECTS

Historically hypnosis with deaf people has been an underutilized inter vention as the deaf were assumed not to be responsive to hypnotic sugg estion. Recent research has begun to challenge these assumptions. Matt hews and Isenberg (in press) compared the hypnotic responsiveness of d eaf and hearing subjects on the Stanford Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale , form C (SHSS:C) all of whom received the hypnotic suggestions via si gn language. Those results supported the notion that deaf subjects are capable of responding to hypnotic suggestion and may be as hypnotical ly responsive as hearing subjects. The purpose of the present article is to examine the similarities and differences of responses between de af and hearing subjects to the individual items of the SHSS:C and comp are those responses to the SHSS:C norms.