Memory, Emotion, and Psychotherapy: Maximizing the Positive Functions of Self-Defining Memories

Memory and Emotion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 211-232

  Singer, Jefferson A ^a  

^a The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memories; Emotion; Emotional resonance; Memory; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951693444     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756232.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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