Making Your Emotions Work for You: A pilot brief intervention for alexithymia with personality-disordered offenders

Personality and Mental Health

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-49

  McMurran, Mary ^a   Jinks, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84856669405     PISSN: 19328621     EISSN: 1932863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmh.170     Document Type: Article

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