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Hypnosis and the limits of socialpsychological reductionism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Laurence J. Kirmayer
Laurence J. Kirmayer
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Institute of Community and Family Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, CanadaH3T 1E4
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 521
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