Understanding the incomprehensible: Private theories of first-episode psychotic patients and their therapists

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 103-136

  Werbart, Andrzej ^a,b,d   Levander, Sonja ^a,c  

^a Swedish Psychoanalytical Society   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM COUNTY COUNCIL   (Sweden)

^c Stockholm Centre of Public Health   (Sweden)

^d Institute of Psychotherapy   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CHILD ABUSE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PARANOIA; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATTITUDE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 20844460627     PISSN: 00259284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/bumc.69.2.103.66507     Document Type: Article

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