Somatoform dissociative symptoms as related to animal defensive reactions to predatory imminence and injury

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 63-73

  Nijenhuis, Ellert R S ^a,b   Vanderlinden, Johan ^d   Van der Hart, Onno ^e   Spinhoven, Philip ^c   Van Dyck, Richard ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b General Psychiatric Hospital Drenthe   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EATING DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYSTERIA; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROSIS; PAIN; PREDATOR; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SELF REPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0345106657     PISSN: 0021843X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.107.1.63     Document Type: Article

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