Attachment theory in adult psychiatry. Part 2: Importance to the therapeutic relationship

Advances in Psychiatric Treatment

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 10-16

  Ma, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a The Blakesley Centre   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY HALLUCINATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BORDERLINE STATE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL SUPERVISION; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG OVERDOSE; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; SELF POISONING;

EID: 38549181204     PISSN: 13555146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/apt.bp.105.001867     Document Type: Article

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