The Riddle of Cancer

The controversy that results seems to stem not from different definitions of "consciousness," as some of the participants suggest, but rather from a lack of agreement upon the meaning of "explain." Transcripts of a hypnoanalytic treatment session and of Beck's movie, "Unconscious Motivation," are used by Lewis R. Wolberg to illustrate "Hypnotic Phenomena." Marcel Monnier summarizes the changes in EEG pattern that correspond to different states of consciousness and attention, and outlines the antagonistic subcortical systems that regulate consciousness. This book shares the virtues and faults of the previous volumes of this series. The papers are interesting, but most of the data reported are available elsewhere; the discussions likewise are interesting, but not so full of brilliant ideas as to demand verbatim publication.