Changes in the Conceptualization of Personality Disorder: The DSM-5 Debacle

Clinical Social Work Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 163-167

  Widiger, Thomas A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

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EID: 84878448278     PISSN: 00911674     EISSN: 15733343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10615-012-0419-9     Document Type: Note

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