High hypnotizability in a sociocognitive framework

The Highly Hypnotizable Person: Theoretical, Experimental and Clinical Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 85-114

  Wagstaff, Graham F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

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