What is the evidence for specific factors in the psychotherapeutic treatment of fibromyalgia? Comment on "Is brief psychodynamic psychotherapy in primary fibromyalgia syndrome with concurrent depression an effective treatment? A randomized controlled trial"

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 675-676

  Luyten, Patrick ^a,b   Abbass, Allan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; ANXIETY DISORDER; CHRONIC PAIN; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; EMOTION; FIBROMYALGIA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LETTER; MEDICAL CARE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PROBLEM PATIENT; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; PSYCHOTHERAPIST; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RHEUMATOLOGY;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF;

EID: 84887103428     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: 18737714     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2013.07.007     Document Type: Letter

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