Borderline personality or complex Posttraumatic stress disorder an update on the controversy

Harvard Review of Psychiatry

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 322-328

  Lewis, Kate L ^a   Grenyer, Brin F S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Borderline personality disorder; Diagnosis; DSM IV, etiology; Posttraumatic stress disorder; Trauma

Indexed keywords

BORDERLINE STATE; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; REVIEW; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ADULT; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EPILEPSY, POST-TRAUMATIC; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS;

EID: 70350142744     PISSN: 10673229     EISSN: 14657309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10673220903271848     Document Type: Review

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