Amnesia, flashbacks, nightmares, and dissociation in aging concentration camp survivors

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 351-360

  Merckelbach, Harald ^a   Dekkers, Theo ^a   Wessel, Ineke ^a   Roefs, Anne ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NETHERLANDS; NIGHTMARE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRISONER; RATING SCALE; SELF REPORT;

EID: 0037367580     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(02)00019-0     Document Type: Article

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