What is Personality Disorder?

Personality Disorder and Community Mental Health Teams: A Practitioner's Guide

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-39

  Blackburn, Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinicians; Habitual personal characteristics; Personality disorder; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatrists

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889471205     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713594.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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