Metaclinical issues in the treatment of psychopolitical trauma

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-38

  Fischman, Yael ^a,b  

^a Inst Stud Psychopolitical Trauma   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; DENIAL; HUMAN; POLITICS; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

MENTAL HEALTH THERAPIES; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; WAR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; COERCION; COUNTERTRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURAL DIVERSITY; ETHICS, PROFESSIONAL; EXISTENTIALISM; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RAPE; REFUGEES; RELIGION AND PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS; TORTURE;

EID: 0031911620     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0080267     Document Type: Review

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