Dissociative tendencies and individual differences in high hypnotic suggestibility

Cognitive Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 113-135

  Terhune, Devin Blair ^a   Cardeña, Etzel ^a   Lindgren, Magnus ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Dissociation; Executive functioning; Heterogeneity; Hypnosis; Hypnotic suggestibility; Imagery; Involuntariness; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DISSOCIATION; FANTASY; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HIGH HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIBILITY; HUMAN; HYPNOSIS; HYPNOTIC SUGGESTIBILITY SCALE; IMAGERY; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RECALL; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COGNITION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGINATION; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUGGESTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952569271     PISSN: 13546805     EISSN: 14640619     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13546805.2010.503048     Document Type: Article

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