Brazilian Patients with Panic Disorder: The Use of Defense Mechanisms and Their Association with Severity

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 58-64

  Kipper, Leticia ^a   Blaya, Carolina ^a   Teruchkin, Betina ^a   Heldt, Elizeth ^a   Isolan, Luciano ^a   Mezzomo, Kelin ^a   Bond, Michael ^b   Manfro, Gisele Gus ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL DE CLÍNICAS DE PORTO ALEGRE   (Brazil)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Defense mechanism; DSQ 40; Panic disorder; Severity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALADJUSTMENT; MALE; NEUROSIS; PANIC;

ADULT; AGORAPHOBIA; ALCOHOLISM; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DUAL (PSYCHIATRY); DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANIC DISORDER; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0347763391     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.nmd.0000106001.84359.0f     Document Type: Article

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