Do truth commissions heal? The East Timor experience

Lancet

Volumn 367, Issue 9518, 2006, Pages 1222-1224

  Silove, Derrick ^a,b,c   Zwi, Anthony B ^d   le Touze, Dominique ^b,c  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY SOUTH WEST AREA HEALTH SERVICE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CRIME; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIMOR-LESTE; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN RIGHTS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

EAST TIMOR; FEMALE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33646170455     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68519-X     Document Type: Note

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