Suggestibility, Expectancy, Trance State Effects, and Hypnotic Depth: I. Implications for Understanding Hypnotism

American Journal of Clinical Hypnosis

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 275-290

  Pekala, Ronald J ^a   Kumar, V K ^b   Maurer, Ronald ^a   Elliott Carter, Nancy ^a   Moon, Edward ^a   Mullen, Karen ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEST CHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Altered states of consciousness; Consciousness; Expectancy; Hypnosis; Hypnotic depth; Hypnotism; Psychophenomenology; Suggestibility; Trance

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALITY TEST; REVIEW; SUGGESTION;

ATTITUDE; AWARENESS; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SET (PSYCHOLOGY); SUGGESTION;

EID: 77954482413     PISSN: 00029157     EISSN: 21600562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00029157.2010.10401732     Document Type: Article

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