Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2 , Pages 106-110 , March 2000

Borderline personality disorder and bipolar II disorder in private practice depressed outpatients

  • Franco Benazzi

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Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 41, Issue 2 , Pages 106-110 , March 2000

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