Alexithymia: Relationship with ego defense and coping styles

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 91-98

  Parker, James D A ^b   Taylor, Graeme J ^a   Bagby, R Michael ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EGO; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE;

EID: 0031917207     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-440X(98)90084-0     Document Type: Article

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