Hypnosis and the brain: The relationship between subclinical complex partial epileptic-like symptoms, imagination, suggestibility, and changes in self-identity

Hypnosis and Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 283-305

  Persinger, Michael A ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315224374-14     Document Type: Chapter

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