The use of humor with chronic schizophrenic patients

Journal of Contemporary Psychotherapy

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 223-234

  Witztum, Eliezer ^a   Briskin, Shimon ^b   Lerner, Vladimir ^b  

^a MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; IMITATION; MALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SELF ESTEEM; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0033403104     PISSN: 00220116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021921202183     Document Type: Article

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