Posttraumatic stress disorder, pulp fiction, and the press

Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 267-269

  Rosen, Gerald M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORENSIC PSYCHIATRY; LAW; LAW SUIT; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW;

EXPERT TESTIMONY; HUMANS; INSURANCE, LIABILITY; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALINGERING; MASS MEDIA; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030014426     PISSN: 0091634X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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