Plausibility and possible determinants of sudden "remissions" in borderline patients

Psychiatry

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 111-119

  Gunderson, John G ^a   Bender, Donna ^b   Sanislow, Charles ^b   Yen, Shirley ^b   Rettew, Jennifer Bame ^b   Dolan Sewell, Regina ^b   Dyck, Ingrid ^b   Morey, Leslie C ^b   McGlashan, Thomas H ^b   Shea, M Tracie ^b   Skodol, Andrew E ^b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EATING DISORDER; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR DEPRESSION; PANIC; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038601822     PISSN: 00332747     EISSN: 1943281X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1521/psyc.66.2.111.20614     Document Type: Article

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