Horror vacui: Emptiness might distinguish between major suicide repeaters and nonmajor suicide repeaters: A pilot study

Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 117-119

  Blasco Fontecilla, Hilario ^a,b   Baca García, Enrique ^c   Courtet, Philippe ^d,e   García Nieto, Rebeca ^c   De Leon, Jose ^f  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO PUERTA DE HIERRO   (Spain)

^b Consulting Asistencial Sociosanitario ^*  (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^d UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^e FONDATION FONDAMENTAL   (France)

^f Eastern State Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; CAUCASIAN; EMOTIONALITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HIGH SCHOOL; HUMAN; LETTER; LIKERT SCALE; PAIN; PHENOTYPE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL PAIN; REINFORCEMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX RATIO; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

EID: 84924099408     PISSN: 00333190     EISSN: 14230348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000369937     Document Type: Letter

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