Defensive flexibility and its relation to symptom severity, depression, and anxiety

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 199, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-41

  Drapeau, Martin ^a   De Roten, Yves ^b   Blake, Emily ^a   Beretta, Veronique ^b   Strack, Micha ^c   Körner, Annett ^a   Despland, Jean Nicolas ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

anxiety; Defense mechanisms; defenses; depression; DMRS; flexibility; psychopathology; rigidity; symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HAMILTON ANXIETY SCALE; HAMILTON SCALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651272100     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182043b4e     Document Type: Article

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