The therapeutic release of anger: Helen Watkins's silent abreaction and subsequent elaborations of the anger rock

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-63

  Krakauer, Sarah Y ^a,b  

^a Dept of Economics and Thomas Jefferson Program in Public Policy at the College of William and Mary   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMAGERY; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY; PAIN; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEXUAL ABUSE; SILENT ABREACTION; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; THEORETICAL MODEL; THERAPY EFFECT;

ABREACTION; ANGER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER; PAIN; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; SELF CONCEPT; SUGGESTION;

EID: 56749105957     PISSN: 00207144     EISSN: 17445183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207140802463633     Document Type: Review

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