Psychological Growth in Aging Vietnam Veterans: Redefining Shame and Betrayal

Journal of Humanistic Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 336-355

  McCormack, Lynne ^a   Joseph, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

empathy; gratitude; humility; interpretative phenomenological analysis; posttraumatic growth; self acceptance; shame; war related betrayal

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901323873     PISSN: 00221678     EISSN: 1552650X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022167813501393     Document Type: Article

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