Evaluation, immersion, and fragmentation in emotion narratives from traumatized and nontraumatized women

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 465-472

  Römisch, Sarah ^a   Leban, Ewa ^a   Habermas, Tilmann ^a   Döll Hentschker, Susanne ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Emotion; Evaluationx; Fragmentation; Narrative; Trauma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929265248     PISSN: 19429681     EISSN: 1942969X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0035169     Document Type: Article

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