Deliberate self-harm in female patients with affective disorders: Investigation of personality structure and affect regulation by means of operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 196, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 743-751

  Boeker, Heinz ^a   Himmighoffen, Holger ^a   Straub, Miriam ^a   Schopper, Christian ^a   Endrass, Jerome ^a   Kuechenhoff, Bernhard ^a   Weber, Silvan ^a   Hell, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Affective disorders; Deliberate self harm; Operationalized psychodynamic diagnostics.; Personality structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DYSTHYMIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOOD DISORDERS; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 54849426081     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3181879daf     Document Type: Article

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