Early discontinuance of borderline patients from psychotherapy

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 177, Issue 1, 1989, Pages 38-42

  Gunderson, John G ^a   Prank, Arlene P ^a   Ronningstam, Elsa F ^a   Wachter, Stuart ^a   Lynch, Vincent J ^a   Wolf, Pamela J ^a  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOTHERAPY;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0024552871     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-198901000-00006     Document Type: Article

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