A study and comparison of Alexithymia among patients with substance use disorder and normal people

Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue , 2010, Pages 1367-1370

  Hamidi, Shabnam ^a   Rostami, Reza ^a   Farhoodi, Farzad ^a   Abdolmanafi, Atefeh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Affect; Alexithymia; Emotions; Substance use disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 78549231955     PISSN: 18770428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.07.289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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