Social cognition and levels of personality organization in patients with somatoform disorders: A case-control study

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 202, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 217-223

  Koelen, Jurrijn A ^a,b   Eurelings Bontekoe, Elisabeth H M ^c   Van Broeckhuysen Kloth, Saskia A M ^a   Snellen, Wim M ^d   Luyten, Patrick ^b,e  

^a Altrecht Psychosomatic Medicine   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Altrecht Center for Psychodiagnostic Assessment   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

level of personality functioning; personality organization; social cognition; Social Cognition and Object Relations Scale; Somatoform disorders; theory of mind

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY ORGANIZATION; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RATING SCALE; SOCIAL COGNITION; SOCIAL COGNITION AND OBJECT RELATIONS SCALE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOMATOFORM DISORDER;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; MMPI; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERSONALITY; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; THEMATIC APPERCEPTION TEST;

EID: 84896853565     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000000097     Document Type: Article

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