Information Processing in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

The Oxford Handbook of Traumatic Stress Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Ehlers, Anke ^a   Ehring, Thomas ^b   Kleim, Birgit ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Appraisal; Cognition; Conditioning; Memory; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Priming; Rumination; Selective attention; Thought suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865638204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195399066.013.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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