Flashbulb memories and other repetitive images: A psychiatric perspective

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-125

  Sierra, Mauricio ^a   Berrios, German E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; COGNITION; EXPERIENCE; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MELANCHOLIA; MENTAL DISEASE; OBSESSION; PANIC; PHANTOM PAIN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHOBIA; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

EID: 0033052689     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(99)90115-3     Document Type: Article

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