The Undisordered Personality: Normative Assumptions Underlying Personality Disorder Diagnoses

Review of General Psychology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 230-241

  Leising, Daniel ^a   Rogers, Katherine ^b   Ostner, Julia ^c  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

culture; diagnosis; disorder; evolution; personality

Indexed keywords

EID: 70249139893     PISSN: 10892680     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017139     Document Type: Article

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