Personality disorders: New data versus old concepts

Current Opinion in Psychiatry

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 90-94

  Fountoulakis, Konstantinos N ^a,b   Kaprinis, George S ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Antisocial; Axis II; Borderline; Personality; Personality disorder

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERSONALITY DISORDER; PERSONALITY DISORDER AXIS I; PERSONALITY DISORDER AXIS II; REMISSION; REVIEW; SECONDARY PREVENTION; CLASSIFICATION;

HUMANS; PERSONALITY DISORDERS;

EID: 33646850559     PISSN: 09517367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.yco.0000196158.98540.b6     Document Type: Review

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