Clinical correlates of high hypnotizability

The Highly Hypnotizable Person: Theoretical, Experimental and Clinical Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 187-212

  Lynn, Steven Jay ^a   Meyer, Eric ^a   Shindler, Kelley ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203487822-11     Document Type: Chapter

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