Contrasting Models of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Reply to Monroe and Mineka (2008)

Psychological Review

Volumn 115, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1099-1106

  Berntsen, Dorthe ^a   Rubin, David C ^b   Bohni, Malene Klindt ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

autobiographical memory; involuntary remembering; posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 56349088294     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013730     Document Type: Article

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