Retrieval inhibition of trauma-related words in women reporting repressed or recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1129-1136

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

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Childhood sexual abuse; Directed forgetting; Repression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; RECALL; SELF REPORT; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADULT; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE, SEXUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRESSION; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33745199133     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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