Should there be a clinical typology of posttraumatic stress disorder?

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 159-167

  Alarcon, Renato D ^a   Deering, Catherine G ^a   Glover, Susan G ^a   Ready, David J ^a   Eddleman, H Clay ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Classification; Diagnosis; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Typology

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; SYMPTOM;

EID: 0030926438     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/00048679709073815     Document Type: Review

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