People who expect to enter psychotherapy are prone to believing that they have forgotten memories of childhood trauma and abuse

Memory

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 556-562

  Rubin, David C ^a   Boals, Adriel ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Autobiographical memory; False memory; Recovered memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SUGGESTION; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; ANXIETY; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REPRESSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SUGGESTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 77954412245     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658211.2010.490787     Document Type: Article

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