Relationship between defense styles, alexithymia, and personality in alcohol-dependent inpatients

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 860-867

  Evren, Cuneyt ^a   Cagil, Dilara ^a   Ulku, Muge ^a   Ozcetinkaya, Serap ^a   Gokalp, Peykan ^b   Cetin, Turan ^a   Yigiter, Sera ^a  

^a BAKIRKOY DR SADI KONUK TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b MALTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTING OUT; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ALCOHOLISM; ALEXITHYMIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DENIAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FANTASY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOMATIZATION;

ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; ALCOHOLISM; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84864120597     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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