Dream and Blog Content Analysis of a Long Term Diary of a Video Game Player With Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Dreaming

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 124-147

  Gackenbach, Jayne ^a   Sample, Tyler ^a   Mandel, Gabriel ^a   Tomashewsky, Misty ^a  

^a MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blog; Dreams; OCD; Video games

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959827040     PISSN: 10530797     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023058     Document Type: Article

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