UNDERSTANDING EMOTION: NEW THEORIES, NEW THERAPY
Trauma and Affect: Applying the Language of Affect Theory to the Phenomena of Traumatic Stress
Psychiatric Annals, 2013;23(10):567–576
Abstract
Our ability to delineate and comprehend the phenomenology of trauma may be greatly enhanced by reexamination from the perspective of affect and affect theory.
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