Numbing scale scores in female psychiatric inpatients diagnosed with self-injurious behavior, dissociative identity disorder, and major depression

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 115-123

  Glover, Hillel ^a,e   Lader, Wendy ^b   Walker O'Keefe, Jacqueline ^c   Goodnick, Paul ^d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Hartgrove Hospital   (United States)

^c Department of Neurosurgery   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dead; Emotionally numb; Stress; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; HYSTERIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADULT; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0030991989     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1781(97)03039-4     Document Type: Article

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