"Playing Possum:" Differential Diagnosis, Work-Up, and Treatment of Profound Interpersonal Withdrawal

Psychosomatics

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 560-562

  Beach, Scott R ^a   Stern, Theodore A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE; LORAZEPAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CATATONIA; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DROWSINESS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PLAYING POSSUM; PROFOUND INTERPERSONAL WITHDRAWAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RIGIDITY; SEXUAL ABUSE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; AUTOMUTILATION; BORDERLINE STATE; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FACTITIOUS DISEASE; HUMAN RELATION; INTOXICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CATATONIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FACTITIOUS DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVISM; OVERDOSE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84857429808     PISSN: 00333182     EISSN: 15457206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psym.2011.03.012     Document Type: Article

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