Relationship of numbing to alexithymia, apathy, and depression

Psychological Reports

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 189-200

  Ramirez, Sonja M ^a   Glover, Hillel ^a   Ohlde, Carrol ^a   Mercer, Richard ^a   Hamlin, Cary ^a   Goodnick, Paul ^a   Perez Rivera, Mildred I ^a  

^a NONE

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ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDER; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0035259344     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2001.88.1.189     Document Type: Article

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