Analysis of the interaction between hypnotic susceptibility and dissociative experiences in a population reporting spontaneous paranormal experiences;Interacción entre susceptibilidad hipnótica y experiencias disociativas en una población que reporta experiencias anomalo/paranormales

Interamerican Journal of Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 233-240

  Parra, Alejandro ^a   Argibay, Juan Carlos ^a  

^a Instituto de Psicologia Paranormal   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Dissociative patterns; Hypnosis; Paranormal experiences

Indexed keywords

EID: 41449092299     PISSN: 00349690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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