No man's land: Gender bias and social constructivism in the diagnosis of borderline personality disorder

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 3-23

  Bjorklund, Pamela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b The College of St Scholastica   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFFECT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BORDERLINE STATE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MORALITY; MORBIDITY; NORTH AMERICA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGY; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOLOGY;

AFFECT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; ETHNOPSYCHOLOGY; EUROPE; HUMANS; MORALS; MORBIDITY; NORTH AMERICA; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PREJUDICE; PREVALENCE; PSYCHIATRY; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL; WESTERN WORLD; WOMEN;

EID: 29044432358     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840500312753     Document Type: Review

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