Impulsive and compulsive self-injurious behavior in bulimia nervosa: Prevalence and psychological correlates

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 157-165

  Favaro, Angela ^a   Santonastaso, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BULIMIA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE DURATION; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; VOMITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AWARENESS; BULIMIA; COMORBIDITY; COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031939687     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199803000-00004     Document Type: Article

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