Defensive functioning predicts improvement in major depressive episodes

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 238-243

  Høglend, Per ^a   Perry, J Christopher ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RELIABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT; COMORBIDITY; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031952812     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199804000-00006     Document Type: Article

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