Relationship of alexithymia and dissociation with severity of borderline personality features in male substance-dependent inpatients

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 854-859

  Evren, Cuneyt ^a   Cinar, Ozgul ^a   Evren, Bilge ^b  

^a Bakirkoy State Hospital for Mental Health and Neurological Disorders   (Turkey)

^b Baltalimani State Hospital for Muskuloskeletal Disorders   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ALEXITHYMIA; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY INVENTORY; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; DISSOCIATIVE EXPERIENCES SCALE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EMOTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84864146648     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2011.11.009     Document Type: Article

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