Are Trauma Memories Disjointed from other Autobiographical Memories in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder? An Experimental Investigation.

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This study tested the hypothesis that trauma memories are disjointed from other autobiographical material in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Assault survivors with (n = 25) and without PTSD (n = 49) completed an autobiographical memory retrieval task during script-driven imagery of (a) the assault and (b) an unrelated negative event. When listening to a taped imagery script of the worst moment of their assault, survivors with PTSD took longer to retrieve unrelated non-traumatic autobiog...

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Authors: Kleim, B; Wallott, F; Ehlers, A

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy
• Volume: 36
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 221-234
• Publication date: 2008-03-01
• DOI: 10.1017/s1352465807004080
• EISSN: 1469-1833
• ISSN: 1352-4658
• Language: English
• Keywords: Posttraumatic stress disorder; script-driven imagery; cognitive processing; memory fragmentation; autobiographical memory