Links between immunity and conditions leading to psychotherapy

Rivista di Psichiatria

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 149-163

  Picardi, Angelo ^a   Tarolla, Emanuele ^a   Tarsitani, Lorenzo ^b   Biondi, Massimo ^b  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Immunity; Individual difference factors; Psychotherapy; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CYTOKINE; FLUOXETINE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; NEFAZODONE; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VENLAFAXINE;

ACUTE STRESS; AFFECT; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CHRONIC STRESS; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMORAL IMMUNITY; IMMUNITY; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MALADJUSTMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; STRESS; UPREGULATION;

DEPRESSION; HUMANS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 68349098819     PISSN: 00356484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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