Memories of sexual abuse: Janet's critique of freud, a balanced approach

Psychological Reports

Volumn 82, Issue 3 PART 1, 1998, Pages 1027-1043

  Brown, Paul ^a   Van Der Hart, Onno ^b  

^a Pierre Janet Centre   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EGO DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; REVIEW;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FREUDIAN THEORY; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; REPRESSION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; UNCONSCIOUS (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0032086006     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1998.82.3.1027     Document Type: Article

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