Predictive value of alexithymia: A prospective study in somatizing patients

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 43-48

  Bach, Michael ^a   Bach, Doris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Krakenhaus der Stadt Wien   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; DSM III R diagnoses; Follow up; Somatization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; INTERVIEW; MALE; PANIC; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMISSION; SCORING SYSTEM; SOMATIZATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SICK ROLE; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029118351     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000288989     Document Type: Article

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