Alexithymia in substance abuse: Relationship to depression

Psychological Reports

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 641-642

  Fukunishi, Isao ^a  

^a TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HUMAN; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 0030112810     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.1996.78.2.641     Document Type: Article

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