Psychotherapy and social support: Unsettling questions

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 272-279

  Schwartz, Richard S ^a,b,c  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health; Psychotherapy; Social adjustment; Social support

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FAMILY LIFE; FRIEND; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LONGEVITY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MARITAL THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LONG-TERM CARE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 27544465880     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10673220500326458     Document Type: Review

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