Impaired decentration in personality disorder: A series of single cases analysed with the metacognition assessment scale

Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 450-462

  Dimaggio, Giancarlo ^a   Carcione, Antonino ^a   Nicolò, Giuseppe ^a   Conti, Laura ^a   Fiore, Donatella ^a   Pedone, Roberto ^b   Popolo, Raffaele ^a   Procacci, Michele ^a   Semerari, Antonio ^a  

^a Terzo Centro di Psicoterapia Cognitiva   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decentration; Egocentrism; Metacognition; Personality disorder; Theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 72849140160     PISSN: 10633995     EISSN: 10990879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpp.619     Document Type: Article

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