Working around a contested diagnosis: Borderline personality disorder in adolescence

Health (United Kingdom)

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-56

  Koehne, Kristy ^a   Hamilton, Bridget ^a   Sands, Natisha ^b   Humphreys, Cathy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Borderline personality disorder; Disclosure; Discourse analysis; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875658502     PISSN: 13634593     EISSN: 14617196     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363459312447253     Document Type: Article

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