The self-traumatized perpetrator as a "transient mental illness";L'auto-victimisation de l'agresseur: Un éphémère paradigme de maladie mentale

Evolution Psychiatrique

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 630-650

  Young, Allan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Perpetrator; PTSD; Transient mental illness; Violence; War

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HISTORY; HUMAN; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; PARANOIA; POLITICS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOLDIER; TRANSFERENCE; VICTIM; VIET NAM; VIOLENCE; WAR;

EID: 0036820025     PISSN: 00143855     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-3855(02)00162-7     Document Type: Article

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