Attachment, detachment and borderline personality disorder

Psychotherapy

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 171-181

  Sable, Pat ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA;

EID: 0030776753     PISSN: 00333204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/h0087674     Document Type: Article

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