Touching trauma: Combining hypnotic ego strengthening and zero balancing

Contemporary Hypnosis

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 215-220

  Edmunds, Dorsett ^a   Gafner, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Ego strengthening; Exposure therapy; Hypnosis; ptsd; Torture; Zero balancing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEPRESSION; EGO STRENGTH; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; SYMPTOM; TORTURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; ZERO BALANCING;

EID: 0346962906     PISSN: 09605290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ch.280     Document Type: Article

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