The phenomenology of posttraumatic stress disorders following a natural disaster

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 176, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 22-29

  McFarlane, Alexander Cowell ^a  

^a FLINDERS MEDICAL CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISASTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; CATHARSIS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FIRES; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MANUALS; MEMORY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PROBABILITY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0023865174     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198801000-00003     Document Type: Article

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