The American journal of psychiatry
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Review
Hypnotizability and traumatic experience: a diathesis-stress model of dissociative symptomatology.
The authors propose a diathesis-stress model to describe how pathological dissociation may arise from an interaction between innate hypnotizability and traumatic experience. ⋯ High hypnotizability may be a diathesis for pathological dissociative states, particularly under conditions of acute traumatic stress.