No words for feelings: alexithymia in schizophrenia patients and first-degree relatives

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-33

  van 't Wout, Mascha ^a,b   Aleman, André ^c   Bermond, Bob ^d   Kahn, René S ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELATIVE; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBALIZATION;

ADULT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VOCABULARY;

EID: 37849185538     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2006.07.003     Document Type: Article

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