Recovered memories

Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 469-498

  Loftus, Elizabeth F ^a   Davis, Deborah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; False memory; Influence; Repression; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; FALSE MEMORY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECALL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT; TRAUMATOLOGY;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; DREAMS; HUMANS; HYPNOSIS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRESSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33744476122     PISSN: 15485943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.clinpsy.2.022305.095315     Document Type: Review

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