Hypnosis: Part A

Devin B. Terhune, PhD, is a Reader in Experimental Psychology in the Department of Psychology in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, & Neuroscience at King’s College London where he leads the Awareness & Modulation Lab. He completed his PhD on the cognitive neuroscience of high hypnotic suggestibility at Lund University and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford and a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. His research draws on methods and theories from cognitive neuroscience, experimental psychology, and psychiatry with an aim to characterise different features of awareness, with a focus on dissociative states, and how awareness and perception can be modulated using verbal suggestion and pharmacological agents.

Vilfredo De Pascalis is a Professor of General Psychology at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he led a lab on Psychophysiology and taught Personality Psychology. His research uses brain electrophysiology and neuropsychological methods to explore neurophysiological bases of personality, individual differences, and hypnotic suggestibility. He remains active post-retirement in 2020. Since 2022, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of New England, Australia. He serves as an editorial consultant for the International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, is a reviewer for several journals, and has held director board roles in the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences (ISSID) and International Organization of Psychophysiology (IOP).

Graham Jamieson, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of New England, Australia. He received his PhD in Psychology from the University of Queensland, where he also completed his undergraduate and master’s degrees. His research draws on cognitive-affective neuroscience and experimental psychology to investigate the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying altered states of consciousness, including hypnosis, meditation, trance, and dissociation. His work employs a range of neuroimaging techniques, with a focus on EEG source localization and functional connectivity, to explore executive control, affective self-regulation, and predictive processing in these states. He is also actively involved in interdisciplinary collaborations aimed at developing novel tools for assessing consciousness in both clinical and non-clinical populations.