Is comorbidity of posttraumatic stress disorder and borderline personality disorder related to greater pathology and impairment?

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 159, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1940-1943

  Zlotnick, Caron ^a   Franklin, C Laurel ^a   Zimmerman, Mark ^a  

^a BUTLER HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 0036842657     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.159.11.1940     Document Type: Article

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