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Theodore Xenophon Barber

Theodore Xenophon Barber

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Psychology

D-Index
51
Citations
9192
World Ranking
5262
National Ranking
2880

Overview

Theodore Xenophon Barber was affiliated with Harvard University in the United States. Their research primarily encompassed the fields of psychology and arts and humanities, with particular focus on clinical psychology and conservation as subfields of study.

Their work extensively covered topics related to art therapy and mental health, child therapy and development, as well as psychotherapy techniques and applications.

  • Art Therapy and Mental Health
  • Child Therapy and Development
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications

Theodore Xenophon Barber published scholarly articles in notable venues, with a focus on the journal Art Therapy.

  • Art Therapy

Among the recent academic contributions was the paper titled "What Are the Specific Factors of Change in Art Therapy?", published in 2025 in Art Therapy.

  • What Are the Specific Factors of Change in Art Therapy?, 2025, Art Therapy

Their collaborative work included frequent co-authorship with Megan Robb and Kirsten O'Loughlin, both contributors to related research in the field.

  • Megan Robb
  • Kirsten O'Loughlin

Best Publications

  • The fantasy-prone personality: Implications for understanding imagery, hypnosis, and parapsychological phenomena.

    Sheryl C. Wilson;Theodore X. Barber

  • The Creative Imagination Scale as a Measure of Hypnotic Responsiveness: Applications to Experimental and Clinical Hypnosis

    Sheryl C. Wilson;Theodore X. Barber

  • A STRAIN GAUGE PAIN STIMULATOR

    Albert G. Forgione;Theodore X. Barber

  • Toward a convergence in hypnosis research.

    Nicholas P. Spanos;Theodore X. Barber

  • Fact, fiction, and the experimenter bias effect.

    Theodore X. Barber;Maurice J. Silver

  • Cognitive strategies, experimenter modeling, and expectation in the attenuation of pain.

    John F. Chaves;Theodore X. Barber

  • MEASURING "HYPNOTIC-LIKE" SUGGESTIBILITY WITH AND WITHOUT "HYPNOTIC INDUCTION"; PSYCHOMETRIC PROPERTIES, NORMS, AND VARIABLES INFLUENCING RESPONSE TO THE BARBER SUGGESTIBILITY SCALE (BSS).

    Theodore Xenophon Barber

  • The Barber Suggestibility Scale and the Creative Imagination Scale: Experimental and Clinical Applications

    Theodore X. Barber;Sheryl C. Wilson

  • Toward a theory of pain: relief of chronic pain by prefrontal leucotomy, opiates, placebos, and hypnosis.

    Theodore X. Barber

  • Vivid Fantasy and Hallucinatory Abilities in the Life Histories of Excellent Hypnotic Subjects (“Somnambules”): Preliminary Report with Female Subjects

    Sheryl C. Wilson;Theodore X. Barber

  • Significant factors in hypnotic behavior.

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  • Physiological effects of "hypnosis".

    Theodore Xenophon Barber

  • "Hypnotic-like" suggestibility in children and adults.

    Theodore Xenophon Barber;David Smith Calverley

  • Effects on Pain of Experimentally Induced and Spontaneous Distraction

    Theodore X. Barber;Barbara J. Cooper

  • Suggested ("hypnotic") visual hallucinations: experimental and phenomenological data.

    Nicholas P. Spanos;Martin W. Ham;Theodore X. Barber

  • "Hypnotic" experiences as inferred from subjective reports: Auditory and visual hallucinations.

    Nicholas P. Spanos;Theodore X. Barber

  • “Hypnotic Behavior” as a Function of Task Motivation

    Theodore Xenophon Barber;David Smith Calverley

  • Toward a theory of "hypnotic" behavior: Experimental analyses of suggested amnesia.

    Theodore Xenophon Barber;David Smith Calverley

  • Cognitive Control of Pain: Effects of Multiple Cognitive Strategies

    Donald S. Scott;Theodore X. Barber

  • The Effects of “Hypnosis” on Pain

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  • Five attempts to replicate the experimenter bias effect.

    Theodore Xenophon Barber;David S. Calverley;Albert Forgione;John D. McPeake

  • Toward a theory of hypnotic behavior: experimental evaluation of Hull's postulate that hypnotic susceptibility is a habit phenomenon1

    Theodore X. Barber;David Smith Calverley

Frequent Co-Authors

Nicholas P. Spanos
Nicholas P. Spanos Carleton University
Brendan A. Maher
Brendan A. Maher Harvard University

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