When Traumatic Memory Was a Problem: On the Historical Antecedents of PTSD

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 127-146

  Young, Allan ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

American psychiatry; Atheoretical approach; Diagnosing mental disorders; National standard; Revolutionary event

Indexed keywords

EID: 84948760661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713570.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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