Personality changes after completion of long-term group-analytic psychotherapy

Group Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 401-418

  Terlidou, Christina ^c   Moschonas, Dimitris ^c   Kakitsis, Panagiotis ^c   Manthouli, Marina ^c   Moschona, Theano ^a   Tsegos, Ioannis K ^b  

^a Technological Institute of Piraeus   (Greece)

^b Open Psychotherapy Centre   (Greece)

^c Open Psychotherapy Centre ^*

Author keywords

Group analysis outcome; Group psychotherapy outcome; MMPI and Rorschach tests; Personality changes; Psychological assessment; Test retest method

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EGO STRENGTH; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 5644230890     PISSN: 05333164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/533316404045524     Document Type: Article

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