Thought suppression, dissociation and psychopathology

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 877-886

  Spinhoven, Philip ^a,b   Van Der Does, A J Willem ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Dissociation; Intrusive thoughts; Thought suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033228928     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(99)00037-9     Document Type: Article

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