The ethics of trauma: Re-traumatization in society's approach to the traumatized subject

International Journal of Group Psychotherapy

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 27-47

  Nguyen, Leanh ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENIAL; ETHICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LIFE EVENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MENTAL DISEASE; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOLOGY; TORTURE; VICTIM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CRIME VICTIMS; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); ETHICS, CLINICAL; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL DISORDERS; NORTH AMERICA; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESEARCHER-SUBJECT RELATIONS; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, TRAUMATIC; TORTURE;

EID: 78751469435     PISSN: 00207284     EISSN: 00207284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/ijgp.2011.61.1.26     Document Type: Article

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