Impact of defense style on brief psychotherapy of postpartum depression

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 195, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 870-873

  Magalhães, Pedro Vieira Da Silva ^a   Pinheiro, Ricardo Tavares ^a   Faria, Augusto Duarte ^a   Osório, Camila Moreira ^a   Da Silva, Ricardo Azevedo ^a   Botella, Luis ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PELOTAS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITAT RAMON LLULL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Defense mechanisms; Outcome; Postpartum depression; Psychotherapy; Therapeutic alliance

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; EDINBURGH POSTNATAL DEPRESSION SCALE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HUMAN RELATION; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PERSONALITY TEST; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS;

ADULT; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PREGNANCY; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC PROCESSES; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; QUESTIONNAIRES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38449116780     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181569c32     Document Type: Article

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