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Rebooting One’s Professional Work: The Case of French Anesthesiologists Using Hypnosis

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Bourmault, Nishani, Anteby, Michel·2023·Administrative Science Quarterly
DOI 10.1177/00018392231190300
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Individuals deeply socialized into professional cultures tend to strongly resist breaking from their professions’ core cultural tenets. When these individuals face external pressure (e.g., via new technology or regulation), they typically turn to peers for guidance in such involuntary reinventions of their work. But it is unclear how some professionals may voluntarily break from deeply ingrained views. Through our study of French anesthesiologists who practice hypnosis, we aim to better understand this little-explored phenomenon. Adopting hypnosis, a technique that many anesthesiologists consider subjective and even magical, contradicted a core tenet of their profession: the need to only use techniques validated by rigorous scientific-based research. Drawing on interviews and observations, we analyze how these anesthesiologists were able to change their views and reinvent their work. We find that turning inward to oneself (focusing on their own direct experiences of clients) and turning outward to clients (relying on relations with clients) played critical roles in anesthesiologists’ ability to shift their views and adopt hypnosis. Through this process, these anesthesiologists embarked on a voluntary internal transformation, or reboot, whereby they profoundly reassessed their work, onboarded people in adjacent professions to accept their own reinvention, and countered isolation from their peers. Overall, we show a pathway to such reinvention that entails turning inward and ou…

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  • Role identities are profoundly connected to the professional's service relationship with the client.

    “which in turn, as recent work has demonstrated, are profoundly connected to the professional's service relationship with the client (Bourmault and Anteby, 2023).”

    From The AI of the Beholder: Intra‐Professional Sensemaking of an Epistemic Technology (2025) · cites this paper as Bourmault and Anteby, 2023

  • Bourmault and Anteby (2023) showed how relations with clients helped professionals to reassess and reinvent their long-established work, leading to an expanded jurisdiction.

    “Bourmault and Anteby (2023), for example, showed how relations with clients helped professionals to reassess and reinvent their long-established work, leading to an expanded jurisdiction.”

    From The AI of the Beholder: Intra‐Professional Sensemaking of an Epistemic Technology (2025) · cites this paper as Bourmault and Anteby (2023)

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Authors
Bourmault, N., & Anteby, M.
Affiliations
  • NEOMA Business School (FR)
  • Boston University (US)
Corresponding author
Bourmault, Nishani
ORCID
Venue
Administrative Science Quarterly
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2023-08-09
Volume
68
Issue
4
Pages
913-955
ISSN
  • 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
  • 1930-3815
DOI
10.1177/00018392231190300
OpenAlex
W4385701199
Cited by
12
References
100
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 2
FWCI
3.49
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
Administrative Science Quarterly (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Management and Organizational Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Education, sociology, and vocational training
  • Social Sciences › Human Factors and Ergonomics › Innovative Education and Learning Practices
Keywords
professional reinvention, hypnosis, anesthesiologists, professional culture, professional socialization, peer influence, customer relationships, peer isolation

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