Dissociative symptomatology in cancer patients

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Civilotti, Cristina ^a,b   Castelli, Lorys ^a   Binaschi, Luca ^a,b   Cussino, Martina ^a   Tesio, Valentina ^a   Fini, Giulia Di ^a   Veglia, Fabio ^a   Torta, Riccardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Laboratory of Cancer Genomics   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cancer; Dissociative symptoms; Peritraumatic dissociation; Post traumatic stress disorder; Psychoncology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926506457     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00118     Document Type: Article

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