Can experimental memory research adequately explain memory for trauma?

Psychotherapy

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 257-267

  Spinhoven, Philip ^a,b   Nijenhuis, Ellert R S ^b,c   Van Dyck, Richard ^d  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b General Psychiatric Hospital Drenthe   (Netherlands)

^c Cats Polm Institute   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; CHILD ABUSE; ETHICS; HUMAN; INJURY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; STRESS;

EID: 0033302819     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087693     Document Type: Review

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