Is the insight a favourable prognostic factor in the treatment of mental disorders?;L'insight è un fattore prognostico favorevole nella cura della malattia mentale?

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 97, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 565-570

  Vender, Simone ^a   Poloni, Nicola ^b  

^a OSPEDALE DI CIRCOLO   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Insight; Mental disorders; Prognosis; Therapeutic relationship

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORY OF MEDICINE; HUMAN; INTROSPECTION; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PERSONALITY; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW;

AWARENESS; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

EID: 33845916253     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: 00341193     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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