Peritraumatic fear, helplessness and horror and peritraumatic dissociation: Do physical and cognitive symptoms of panic mediate the relationship between the two?

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-47

  Fikretoglu, Deniz ^a,b   Brunet, Alain ^a,b   Best, Suzanne R ^c   Metzler, Thomas J ^c   Delucchi, Kevin ^c   Weiss, Daniel S ^c   Fagan, Jeffrey ^d   Liberman, Akiva ^e   Marmar, Charles R ^c  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b St Anne Center   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dissociation; PTSD; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASSAULT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS; DEATH; DISASTER; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; FEAR; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANIC; POLICE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SEXUAL CRIME; WAR;

ADULT; AGED; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEAR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC; POLICE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 33751069793     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2006.01.008     Document Type: Article

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