Torture victims after psychotherapy-a two-year follow-up

Torture

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 55-58

  Birck, Angelika ^a  

^a Behandlungszentrum fiir Folteropfer Berlin   (Germany)

Author keywords

follow up; PTSD; reactivation; refugees; torture

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012371917     PISSN: 10188185     EISSN: 19973322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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