Narcissistic rage: The Achilles' heel of the patient with chronic physical illness

Patient Preference and Adherence

Volumn 3, Issue , 2009, Pages 239-250

  Hyphantis, Thomas ^a   Almyroudi, Augustina ^a   Paika, Vassiliki ^a   Goulia, Panagiota ^a   Arvanitakis, Konstantinos ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Consultation liaison psychiatry; Narcissism; Personality; Physical illness; Psychological distress; Psychosomatics; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954575728     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1177889X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/PPA.S5499     Document Type: Article

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