The Role of Hypnosis in the Detection of Psychogenic Seizures

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 11-20

  Martínez Taboas, Alfonso ^a  

^a Institutional Research Center Carlos Albizu University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociative disorder; Epilepsy; Psychogenic seizures; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENVIRONMENT; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYSTERIA; MALE; PSYCHOGENESIS; SEIZURE; SENSATION; TRAUMATIC EPILEPSY; WITNESS;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EPILEPSY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; MALE; REGRESSION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEIZURES; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUGGESTION;

EID: 0036306813     PISSN: 00029157     EISSN: 21600562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2002.10403493     Document Type: Article

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