Depathologizing dependency

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 186, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 67-73

  Bornstein, Robert F ^a  

^a GETTYSBURG COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; HUMAN; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOANALYSIS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; ANIMALS; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); DEPENDENT PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 0031906984     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199802000-00001     Document Type: Article

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