The ostrich strategy towards affective issues in alexithymic patients with fibromyalgia

Patient Education and Counseling

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-99

  Geenen, Rinie ^a   Middendorp, Henriët Van ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALEXITHYMIA; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE THERAPY; EDITORIAL; EMOTION; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS;

EID: 31344434804     PISSN: 07383991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pec.2005.12.006     Document Type: Editorial

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