Attachment and cancer: A conceptual integration

Integrative Cancer Therapies

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 371-381

  Tacón, Anna M ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CANCER; CAREGIVER; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COGNITION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HEALTH; HUMAN; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOBIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 0042695586     PISSN: 15347354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1534735402238188     Document Type: Review

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