Suicidality in patients with somatoform disorder – the speechless expression of anger?

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 246, Issue , 2016, Pages 485-491

  Kämpfer, Nora ^a   Staufenbiel, Sabine ^a   Wegener, Ingo ^a   Rambau, Stefanie ^a   Urbach, Anne Sarah ^a   Mücke, Martin ^b   Geiser, Franziska ^a   Conrad, Rupert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alexithymia; Anger; Somatoform disorder; Suicidality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALEXITHYMIA; ANGER; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; DYING; EMOTION; EMOTION ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; GENDER; GERMANY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SOMATOFORM DISORDER; STATE TRAIT ANGER EXPRESSION INVENTORY; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR; SYMPTOM CHECKLIST 90; TORONTO ALEXITHYMIA SCALE; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMPLICATION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; AGED; ANGER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK FACTORS; SOMATOFORM DISORDERS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84994745097     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.10.022     Document Type: Article

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