Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 4 , Pages 284-292 , July 2003

Gender differences in borderline personality disorder: findings from the collaborative longitudinal personality disorders study

  • Dawn M Johnson

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Dawn M. Johnson, Ph.D., Summa Health System, St Thomas Hospital, 444 North Main St, Akron, OH 44310, USA
    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • M.Tracie Shea

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Shirley Yen

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Cynthia L Battle

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Caron Zlotnick

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Charles A Sanislow

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Carlos M Grilo

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Andrew E Skodol

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Donna S Bender

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Thomas H McGlashan

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • John G Gunderson

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA
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  • Mary C Zanarini

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    • Collaborative Longitudinal Personality Disorders Study (CLPS), USA

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☆ The CLPS is an ongoing, longitudinal multisite study of personality disorders supported by the National Institute of Mental Health. Award sites are Brown University, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Providence, RI (MH-50837); Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, NY (MH-50839); Harvard Medical School and Mclean Hospital, Boston (MH-50840); Texas A & M University, College Station, TX (MH-50838); and Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (MH-50850).

PII: S0010-440X(03)00090-7

doi: 10.1016/S0010-440X(03)00090-7

Comprehensive Psychiatry
Volume 44, Issue 4 , Pages 284-292 , July 2003

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