Complicated grief and suicidality: The impact of subthreshold mood symptoms

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Dell'Osso, Liliana ^a   Carmassi, Claudia ^a   Rucci, Paola ^a   Dstat, ^b   Ciapparelli, Antonio ^a   Conversano, Ciro ^a   Marazziti, Donatella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATED GRIEF; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; GRIEF; HUMAN; INVENTORY OF COMPLICATED GRIEF; MALE; MANIA; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD DISORDER; MOOD SPECTRUM SELF REPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 79952999619     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1092852912000090     Document Type: Article

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