Affect School for chronic benign pain patients showed improved alexithymia assessments with TAS-20

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Melin, Eva O ^a,b,c   Thulesius, Hans O ^a,b,d   Persson, Bengt A ^e,f  

^a Kronoberg County Council   (Sweden)

^b Kronoberg Unit for Research and Development   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e Kronoberg County Council   (Sweden)

^f LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 77952983038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-4-5     Document Type: Article

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