The clinician's dilemma: Borderline personality disorder or bipolar spectrum disorder?

Australasian Psychiatry

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 303-308

  Little, John ^a   Richardson, Kate ^b  

^a Bodmin Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bipolar spectrum; Borderline personality; Science; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BIPOLAR I DISORDER; BIPOLAR II DISORDER; BORDERLINE STATE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; REVIEW;

BIPOLAR DISORDER; BORDERLINE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HUMANS; OBSERVATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS;

EID: 77954874167     PISSN: 10398562     EISSN: 14401665     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10398561003702636     Document Type: Review

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