Mentalizing in female inpatients with major depressive disorder

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 201, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 202-207

  Fischer Kern, Melitta ^a   Fonagy, Peter ^b   Kapusta, Nestor D ^a   Luyten, Patrick ^b,c   Boss, Sarah ^b   Naderer, Andrea ^b   Blüml, Victor ^a   Leithner, Katharina ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Chronic depression; Interpersonal functioning; Major depressive disorder; Mentalization; Reflective Functioning Scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; INTELLIGENCE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; RATING SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MIDDLE AGED; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THEORY OF MIND; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84875054755     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e3182845c0a     Document Type: Article

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