Shared traumatic reality in communal disasters: Toward a conceptualization

Psychotherapy

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 249-259

  Baum, Nehami ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Blurring boundaries; Communal disaster; Helping professionals; Shared trauma; Shared traumatic reality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISASTER; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SHARED TRAUMATIC REALITY; WORKPLACE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DISASTERS; EXISTENTIALISM; HUMANS; IDENTIFICATION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; PERSONAL SPACE; PROFESSIONAL ROLE; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REALITY TESTING; ROLE; SELF DISCLOSURE; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; SURVIVORS;

EID: 77954637455     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0019784     Document Type: Article

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