Guided imagery and memory: Implications for psychotherapists

Journal of Counseling Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 123-132

  Arbuthnott, Katherine D ^a   Arbuthnott, Dennis W ^b   Rossiter, Lucille ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGINA   (Canada)

^b Bastian Arbuthnott and Associates   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; IMAGERY; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECALL; REVIEW;

EID: 0342723190     PISSN: 00220167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0022-0167.48.2.123     Document Type: Review

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