Memory performance among women with parental abuse histories: Enhanced directed forgetting or directed remembering?

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 105, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 204-211

  Cloitre, Marylene ^a   Cancienne, James ^a   Brodsky, Beth ^a   Dulit, Rebecca ^a   Perry, Samuel W ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG TERM MEMORY; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; RECALL;

EID: 0029863691     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.105.2.204     Document Type: Article

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