Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 448-453 , November 2003

Personality traits and symptom reduction in a group treatment for women with histories of childhood sexual abuse

  • Nancy L Talbot

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Nancy L. Talbot, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 300 Crittenden Blvd, Rochester, NY 14642-8409, USA
    • Departments of Psychiatry, Oncology, Biostatistics, and Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
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  • Paul R Duberstein

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry, Oncology, Biostatistics, and Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
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  • Jessica S Butzel

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry, Oncology, Biostatistics, and Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
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  • Christopher Cox

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry, Oncology, Biostatistics, and Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA
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  • Donna E Giles

      Affiliations

    • Departments of Psychiatry, Oncology, Biostatistics, and Neurology, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA

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☆ Supported in part by a Leonard F. Salzman Research Award from the Department of Psychiatry, University of Rochester, and US Public Health Service Grants No. R01-MH39531, MH60350, and MH51201.

PII: S0010-440X(03)00142-1

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00142-1

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 6 , Pages 448-453 , November 2003

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