A quantitative measure for expressed emotion

M E Lenior1, P M Dingemans, D H Linszen

  • 1Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Department of Psychiatry, The Netherlands.

Psychiatry Research
|March 3, 1997
PubMed

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