Flooding versus eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy: Relative efficacy has yet to be investigated - Comment on pitman et al. (1996)

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 300-303

  Cahill, Shawn P ^a   Frueh, B Christopher ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; DESENSITIZATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOSOCIAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030822297     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(97)90064-X     Document Type: Article

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