Preventing 'critogenic' harms: Minimizing emotional injury from civil litigation

Journal of Psychiatry and Law

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 5-18

  Gutheil, Thomas G ^a   Bursztajn, Harold ^a   Brodsky, Archie ^a   Strasburger, Larry H ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIVALENCE; COURT; EMOTIONAL STRESS; HUMAN RIGHTS; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; JURISPRUDENCE; LAW SUIT; PRIVACY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW;

EID: 0033922710     PISSN: 00931853     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/009318530002800102     Document Type: Review

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