Dissociative symptoms and how they relate to fantasy proneness in women reporting repressed or recovered memories

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1143-1151

  Geraerts, Elke ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a   Jelicic, Marko ^a   Smeets, Elke ^a   van Heerden, Jaap ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; Dissociation; Fantasy proneness; Recovered memories

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644614464     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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