What do patients do with their obsessive thoughts?

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 335-348

  Freeston, Mark H ^a   Ladouceur, Robert ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPULSION; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OBSESSION; THINKING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CEREMONIAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSESSIVE BEHAVIOR; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; THINKING; VOLITION;

EID: 0030932358     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-7967(96)00094-0     Document Type: Article

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