The role of mentalization in the psychoanalytic treatment of chronic depression

Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 49-57

  Taubner, Svenja ^a   Kessler, Henrik ^b   Buchheim, Anna ^c   Kächele, Horst ^d   Staun, Lenka ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d INTERNATIONAL PSYCHOANALYTIC UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; HELPING ALLIANCE QUESTIONNAIRE; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTALIZATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFLECTIVE FUNCTIONING SCALE; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; DYSTHYMIC DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 79955110456     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.2011.74.1.49     Document Type: Article

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