Discrepancies in autobiographical memories — implications for the assessment of asylum seekers: Repeated interviews study

BMJ

Volumn 324, Issue 7333, 2002, Pages 324-327

  Herlihy, Jane ^a   Scragg, Peter ^b   Turner, Stuart ^a  

^a Traumatic Stress Clinic   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RECALL; REFUGEE; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOM; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA; DECEPTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; REFUGEES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TIME FACTORS; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 0037045540     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.324.7333.324     Document Type: Article

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