Current issues in the assessment of personality disorders

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 28-35

  Widiger, Thomas A ^a   Chaynes, Kaylynn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERVIEW; MALADJUSTMENT; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MENTAL DISEASE; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY; REVIEW; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERSONALITY DISORDERS;

EID: 0642376293     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-003-0006-4     Document Type: Review

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