Affects, trauma, and mechanisms of symptom formation: A tribute to John C. Nemiah, MD (1918-2009)

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 339-349

  Taylor, Graeme J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affects; Alexithymia; Attachment styles; Dissociation; Emotional processing; Mentalization; Panic attacks; Somatic disease; Somatization; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONVERSION DISORDER; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTION; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INJURY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PANIC; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; RELAXATION TRAINING; REVIEW; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AFFECT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CHILD; CHILD ABUSE; COGNITION; DISEASE; EMOTIONS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MENTAL DISORDERS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PANIC DISORDER; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 77956078511     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000320119     Document Type: Review

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