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Centre for the study of Emotion&Law |
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Refugees' experiences of Home Office interviews This paper is in press with the Journal of Ethnic and Minority Studies. It describes and discusses the thematic analysis conducted in the above study on people’s experiences of Home Office interviews. |
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Discrepancies in autobiographical memory A paper published in the British Medical Journal which shows that when people are interviewed twice, many details of their stories change. Peripheral details of traumatic events are particularly likely to be inconsistent. For those with severe |
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Impact of sexual violence in disclosure in Home Office Interviews A study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry describing people’s experiences of Home Office asylum interviews and relating the difficulty they report disclosing their past histories to their problems with Shame, PTSD and |
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Asylum claims and memory of trauma : Sharing our Knowledge This is a position paper, published as an editorial in the British Journal of Psychiatry. It suggests that psychiatrists and psychologists have a breadth of |
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Should discrepant accounts given by asylum seekers be taken as proof of deceit? This paper describes and expands upon the BMJ paper on discrepancies, describing other research which reports similar findings about the unreliability of memory for traumatic experiences. Click here for a link to the paper online. |