Subjective and autonomic stress responses in alexithymia;Respuestas subjetivas y autonómicas al estrés en la alexitimia

Psicothema

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 57-62

  Martínez Sánchez, Francisco ^a   Ortiz Soria, Beatriz ^b   Ato García, Manuel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^b NONE

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