Exploring the roles of emotional numbing, depression, and dissociation in PTSD

Journal of Traumatic Stress

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 489-498

  Feeny, Norah C ^a   Zoellner, Lori A ^b   Fitzgibbons, Lee A ^b   Foa, Edna B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depression; Dissociation; Emotional numbing; PTSD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CRIME VICTIMS; DEPRESSION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RAPE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0033862353     PISSN: 08949867     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007789409330     Document Type: Article

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