Psychotherapy for Dysthymia a naturalistic study of ten patients

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 179, Issue 12, 1991, Pages 734-740

  McCullough, James P ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALABSORPTION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DATA COLLECTION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES;

EID: 0026339313     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199112000-00004     Document Type: Article

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