Alexithymia and attachment representation in idiopathic spasmodic torticollis

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 187, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 47-52

  Scheidt, Carl Eduard ^a   Waller, Elisabeth ^a   Schnock, Christina ^a   Becker Stoll, Fabienne ^b   Zimmermann, Peter ^b   Lücking, Carl Hermann ^a   Wirsching, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SPASMODIC TORTICOLLIS; STRESS; THINKING;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC DISORDERS; Q-SORT; QUESTIONNAIRES; TORTICOLLIS;

EID: 0032953818     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199901000-00008     Document Type: Article

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