PEP | Article - Alterations in the State of the Ego in Hypnosis: Margaret Brenman, Merton M. Gill and Frederick J. Hacker. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, XI, 1947, pp. 60–66.

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Abstract

The authors describe a series of observations in patients under hypnosis which occurred spontaneously and which seemed to be related to changes in the ego state. Bizarre skin sensations, strange equilibrium sensations and peculiar

changes in one's body-image are typical. The mode of thinking tends to symbolism and visual imagery. Sudden outbursts of intense emotion, relived in the present tense, occur frequently. Spontaneous loss of control of motility or impromptu acting out is another common occurrence.