#a lot of cogsci stuff isn't terribly useful or falsifiable

[flyingpurplepeopleprogrammer]

Do you have any recommendations for resources on hypnosis and cognition?

I have two answers for this. One will be at the beginning of this post, and one will take up the entire bottom half.

The short answer is "not yet." There aren't any I know of that I'd recommend, but that's because the interaction of hypnosis and cognition is a very specific and niche topic to pen a comprehensive overview of.

Our knowledge of cognition isn't so much one set of things that fits neatly into a textbook. It's more a bunch of little clues that come from observations made in a gazillion different places.

With that in mind, I've been exceedingly privileged in getting to learn about those bits and pieces in all kinds of places (details of this get mentioned here and there on this blog) and from the perspective of several disciplines. The problem with that is - because my knowledge is largely synthetic - it's hard for me to point you at the book I got it from because I'd be pointing you at a library.

Now having said that, there's a long answer:

In my opinion, hypnosis doesn't need to be treated particularly specially. It's a thing we experience like any other, and anything you learn about the mind is potentially going to be applicable.

I swear up and down I'm not being pithy when I say that I think a good survey course in psychology would be a fantastic starting point for almost any hypnosis enthusiast. Similarly, cognitive psychology (not to be confused with cognitive science) is an established field and one can easily find a survey course online.

I probably could give recommendations for more specific topics and questions. This one's just a bit too broad and any recommendation I would have would probably just by a cogpsy textbook. In another draft of this response I tried listing a few good resources for questions under the umbrella of cognition, but the list got way too long way too fast.

In the long term, a friend and I have drafted an outline and some chapters of a text that would cover this topic in some detail, but Life is a thing and we probably won't actually work on that in a meaningful way until the Scottish economy has had a chance to recover from the Thatcher premiership.