Skills-based treatment for alexithymia: An exploratory case series

Behaviour Change

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 158-171

  Kennedy, Mataji ^a   Franklin, John ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANGER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EVENT; MALE; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PHOBIA; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SKILL; SOMATIZATION;

EID: 0041412930     PISSN: 08134839     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/bech.19.3.158     Document Type: Article

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