The effects of hypnotic and nonhypnotic imaginative suggestion on pain

Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 116-127

  Milling, Leonard S ^a   Kirsch, Irving ^b   Allen, George J ^b   Reutenauer, Erin L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; PAIN; SUGGESTION;

EID: 17844371083     PISSN: 08836612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15324796abm2902_6     Document Type: Article

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