Nightmares and bad dreams in patients with borderline personality disorder: Fantasy as a coping skill?

European Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-37

  Simor, Peter ^a,b   Csóka, Szilvia ^c   Bódizs, Róbert ^c,d  

^a Implicit Laboratory Association   (Hungary)

^b BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Affect regulation; Borderline personality disorder; Fantasy; Nightmares

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ARTICLE; BAD DREAM; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; NIGHTMARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SLEEP DISORDER;

EID: 77952390044     PISSN: 02136163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4321/S0213-61632010000100004     Document Type: Article

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