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Rosa J Seinsche1,2, Bertram Walter2,3, Susanne Fricke1,2

  • 1Department of Psychotherapy and Systems Neuroscience, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10H, Giessen, 35394 Germany.

Current Psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.)
|February 14, 2022
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Keywords:
Cognitive model of PTSDEtiologically relevant socially aversive eventsPost-event processingStructural equation modelling

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