Beyond words: linguistic experience in melancholia, mania, and schizophrenia

Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 475-495

  Sass, Louis ^a   Pienkos, Elizabeth ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Language; Mania; Melancholia; Mood disorder; Phenomenology; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942037820     PISSN: 15687759     EISSN: 15728676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-013-9340-0     Document Type: Article

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