The Reliability and Characteristics of the Brief Syntactic Analysis

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 168, Issue MAR., 1996, Pages 334-336

  Thomas, Philip ^a,b   Kearney, Gabby ^b   Napier, Elizabeth ^a   Ellis, Elin ^b   Leudar, Ivan ^c   Johnston, Margaret ^c  

^a North Wales Hospital

^b YSBYTY GWYNEDD   (United Kingdom)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL DISEASE; THOUGHT DISORDER;

COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0029998444     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.168.3.334     Document Type: Article

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