Is high hypnotic suggestibility necessary for successful hypnotic pain intervention?

Current Pain and Headache Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 98-102

  Milling, Leonard S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIA; BODY MOVEMENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITION; EFFECT SIZE; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPNOTIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALIZATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAIN; REVIEW; STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; INDIVIDUALITY; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; SUGGESTION;

EID: 42049093184     PISSN: 15313433     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11916-008-0019-0     Document Type: Review

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