Organizing awareness and increasing emotion regulation: Revising chair work in emotion-focused therapy for borderline personality disorder

Journal of Personality Disorders

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-107

  Pos, Alberta E ^a   Greenberg, Leslie S ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BORDERLINE STATE; COGNITIVE THERAPY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; EMPATHY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AWARENESS; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; HUMANS; INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84857528667     PISSN: 0885579X     EISSN: 19432763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/pedi.2012.26.1.84     Document Type: Article

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