Longing for reconciliation: A challenge for women with borderline personality disorder

Issues in Mental Health Nursing

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 560-568

  Holm, Anne Lise ^a,b   Berg, Agneta ^c   Severinsson, Elisabeth ^d  

^a WESTERN NORWAY UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

^c KRISTIANSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BORDERLINE STATE; CHILD ABUSE; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CONCEPT; SHAME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ADULT SURVIVORS OF CHILD ABUSE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; GUILT; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SELF CONCEPT; SHAME; WOMEN;

EID: 70350518659     PISSN: 01612840     EISSN: 10964673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01612840902838579     Document Type: Article

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