Why borderline personality disorder is neither borderline nor a personality disorder

Personality and Mental Health

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 86-95

  Tyrer, Peter ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 67650572058     PISSN: 19328621     EISSN: 1932863X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pmh.78     Document Type: Article

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