Intrusive trauma memory: A review and functional analysis

Applied Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1076-1088

  Krans, Julie ^a   Näring, Gérard ^a   Becker, Eni S ^a   Holmes, Emily A ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUSE; ASSOCIATION; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; COGNITION; EMOTION; EPISODIC MEMORY; HUMAN; INTROVERSION; INTRUSIVE TRAUMA MEMORY; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAPE; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 70449387237     PISSN: 08884080     EISSN: 10990720     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acp.1611     Document Type: Review

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