Don't worry and beware of white bears: Thought suppression in anxiety patients

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-55

  Becker, Eni S ^b   Rinck, Mike ^b   Roth, Walton T ^a   Margraf, Jürgen ^b  

^a VA PALO ALTO HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SPEECH DISORDER; THINKING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONFUSION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THINKING; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0031977951     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6185(97)00048-0     Document Type: Article

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