Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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1 paper

Perception of self and other in major depression.

Michael A. Gara, Robert L. Woolfolk, Bertram D. Cohen, Ruth B. Goldston, et al
Journal of Abnormal Psychology Summary & key facts 1993 116 citations

Researchers asked people with major depression and people without psychiatric disorders to write open, free descriptions of themselves and of other people. Compared with the control group, the depressed group named fewer positive traits and more negative traits for themselves and for parents and close others. A clustering analysis also…

Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development Mental Health Research Topics
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