Traumatic entrapment, appeasement and complex post-traumatic stress disorder: Evolutionary perspective of hostage reactions, domestic abuse and the Stockholm syndrome

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 377-384

  Cantor, Chris ^a   Price, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b SUSSEX COMMUNITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abuse; Appeasement; Complex PTSD; Hostage; Stockholm

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHIMPANZEE; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ETHOLOGY; HOSTAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; MAMMAL; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; STOCKHOLM SYNDROME; SURVIVAL; VICTIM;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COERCION; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; EVOLUTION; FEAR; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; HUMANS; PAN TROGLODYTES; PRISONERS; SPOUSE ABUSE; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SYNDROME;

EID: 34248198950     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670701261178     Document Type: Review

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