Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 284-290 , July 2005

Insight into illness in schizophrenia

  • Craig Goodman

      Affiliations

    • Brain Behavior Laboratory, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa 31906, Israel
    • ,
  • Gabriella Knoll

      Affiliations

    • Brain Behavior Laboratory, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • ,
  • Victoria Isakov

      Affiliations

    • Brain Behavior Laboratory, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • ,
  • Henry Silver

      Affiliations

    • Brain Behavior Laboratory, Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • Sha'ar Menashe Mental Health Center, Mobile Post Hefer 38814, Israel
    • Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine, Technion Institute of Technology, Haifa 31906, Israel
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +972 4 6278160, +972 4 6278852; fax: +972 4 6278004, +972 4 6278857.

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doi: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2004.11.002

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 46, Issue 4 , Pages 284-290 , July 2005

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