A short scale for the measurement of hypnotic responsiveness was constructed for use with patients for whom the standard scales might prove too long, too uninteresting, or too tiring. Five items were selected: moving hands together, a dream, age regression, a posthypnotic suggestion, and posthypnotic amnesia. A sample of 111 university undergraduates, selected from the full range of scores (0–10) on a shortened 10-point version of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A, was given the 5-point clinical scale and the 12-point Stanford Hypnotic Scale, Form C in balanced order. There were no order effects. A reliability estimate for the clinical scale was obtained from the product-moment correlation between the total scores on the two scales. This correlation was .72. The clinical scale requires approximately 20 minutes for administration.