Psychological characteristics of Japanese patients with chronic pain assessed by the Rorschach test

BioPsychoSocial Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Yamamoto, Kazumi ^a,b   Kanbara, Kenji ^a   Mutsuura, Hiromi ^a   Ban, Ikumi ^a   Mizuno, Yasuyuki ^a   Abe, Tetsuya ^a   Yoshino, Maki ^a   Tajika, Aran ^a   Nakai, Yoshihide ^a,b   Fukunaga, Mikihiko ^a  

^a KANSAI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Department of Psychosomatic Medicine ^*  (Japan)

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EID: 78649332666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17510759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1751-0759-4-20     Document Type: Article

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