Can hypnosis cause madness?

Contemporary Hypnosis

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 97-111

  Wagstaff, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dangers of hypnosis; Frontal cortex; Hypnosis; Hypnotizability; Schizophrenia; Stage hypnosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003328822     PISSN: 09605290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ch.198     Document Type: Article

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