Cognitive Processes, Trauma, and Dissociation-Misconceptions and Misrepresentations: Reply to Bremner (2010)

Psychological Bulletin

Volumn 136, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-11

  Giesbrecht, Timo ^a   Lynn, Steven J ^b   Lilienfeld, Scott O ^c   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

cognition; dissociation; fantasy proneness; memory; trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 74049088123     PISSN: 00332909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0018068     Document Type: Article

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