Understanding and Treating Trichotillomania: What We Know and What We Don't Know

Psychiatric Clinics of North America

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 487-501

  Woods, Douglas W ^a   Flessner, Christopher ^a   Franklin, Martin E ^b   Wetterneck, Chad T ^a   Walther, Michael R ^b   Anderson, Emily R ^c   Cardona, Dodanid ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; DESIPRAMINE; FLUOXETINE; NALTREXONE;

ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HABIT; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN CHARACTERISTIC; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL STRESS; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOMETRY; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

ADULT; CHILD; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; TRICHOTILLOMANIA;

EID: 33646152728     PISSN: 0193953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psc.2006.02.009     Document Type: Review

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