High hypnotizability: Key issues

The Highly Hypnotizable Person: Theoretical, Experimental and Clinical Issues

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 5-29

  Heap, Michael ^a   Brown, Richard J ^b   Oakley, David A ^c  

^a Wathwood Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b WYTHENSHAWE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203487822-4     Document Type: Chapter

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