Treatment of bulimia nervosa: When CBT fails

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 197-212

  Wilson, G Terence ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BULIMIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0029945652     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0005-7967(95)00068-2     Document Type: Article

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